Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Women's National Press Club promptly announced one of its 1948 "achievement" awards for British-born Actress Madeleine Carroll, for "combining excellence in her chosen career with continuing service to humanity." Other winners: Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt ("Woman of the Year"), 88-year-old self-taught Painter "Grandma" Moses, and Novelist Mary Jane Ward (The Snake...
Annex graduate and actress. Dorothy Sands '15 will appear on the Agassiz House stage Sunday night to present her-one-woman show, "Styles in Acting." Proceeds of the monologue will benefit the Radcliffe Anniversary Fund...
Herself celebrated for claw-sharp quotes, Dorothy surprised the cast with her gentleness. With Evans, she fled the theater between acts to avoid stares by the curious, acknowledged compliments with a mild "Bless you." Said one actress: "She's sweet. She's even shy. She's a love...
After working hours, Jimmy was off to parties with old Broadway friends. Soon he had a new one: Actress Betty Compton. Their relationship became a Page One scandal. "If you have to be a sneak to get votes," snapped Jimmy, "then count me out right now." All went as gaily as a magic-carpet ride-until the Crash. In 1931, the New York state legis- lature voted an investigation of charges of corruption in the Walker administration. "A tempest in a pot," said Jimmy...
...first philosopher to make truth pay, and like Jesus I went among the sinners by getting my articles printed in the Tory and Hearst press . . . William Morris died weeping for the poor, I'll die denouncing poverty . . . The girl Leigh [Actress Vivien Leigh] was round today [and] I thought of walking . . . with her to attract attention to myself . . . Was [Rilke] a poet? ... I am not certain whether Picasso is the name of the latest car or a horse . . . Burne-Jones was a great artist . . . [Joseph] Conrad [once] challenged me to a duel. Unfortunately, [H.G.] Wells...