Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author. Of indefinite age but of immediately perceptible dimensions, Mae West resembles her prototype, the over stuffed houri of the '90s. On the stage since she was eight, she has been a hoofer, singer, weightlifter, can still support 500 Ibs. She writes her own plays, casts, stages, directs them, plays the star roles. When admitting to 27 years she wrote her first play, Sex, for which she was arrested and served ten days on Manhattan's Welfare Island. Of her other plays, Pleasure Man was closed by the police after 3 days' run in Manhattan. The Drag never reached Manhattan...
...service for the price of $51,226 or about $232 the dish. Just to be sure, Mr. Nash forwarded some of his plates to Edward Crowninshield, bachelor brother of Bachelor Editor Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair. Edward Augustus Crowninshield, 60, was a famed amateur tennis player of the '90s, second president of the West Side (Forest Hills) Tennis Club. Among his good friends now is Tennis-Artist Helen Wills Moody. One of the first men to play ice hockey in the U. S., he founded, with two others, the St. Nicholas Rink, played on the St. Nicholas team (first...
YEARS OF GRACE - Margaret Ayer Barnes-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Longer than most of today's novels, Years of Grace is not quite long enough to take in its heroine's full life. Jane Ward is 14 when her story opens in the '90s, a grandmother when it ends, still hale if not as hearty as she has been. Jane is the younger daughter of a well-to-do conservative Chicago family. When she falls in love with André, 19-year-old French boy who wants to be a sculptor, her parents forbid them to see each...
...Conrad Veidt, whose ability to interpret the effect of mental sickness on human behavior surpasses even that of famed Alexander Moissi (TIME, Jan. 6). Veidt plays the part slowly, subtly, compellingly, lifting a superior program picture into authentic tragedy. Best shot: 413 dainty ladies, in costumes of the '90s, on their way to hidden destinies...
...Joseph Floyd, head of an old English Roman Catholic family in the '90s, thought he had a vocation for the priesthood. He married only because his confessor told him it was his duty to continue his line. There was no love between Sir Joseph and his pretty young wife- when she was seduced by the fascinating, Protestant Lord Charles Craddock his distaste for her turned to horrified hate. But he took her back, again on advice of his confessor, on condition that she should never see her illegitimate daughter. Then he made her the mother of four children...