Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest of Gambling Lady shows what happens when an old friend of Garry Madison tries to take him away from his wife. She, Sheila Aiken (Claire Dodd), snubs Lady Lee. Lady Lee renews her acquaintance with the bookmaker. Garry Madison grows jealous. When the bookmaker is found murdered in a gutter, Garry Madison is held for murder. Sheila Aiken, who could have given Garry an alibi by admitting that he was at her house, refuses to do so unless Lady Lee divorces him. This horrid snarl is untangled as simply as it was arranged, by a shot of Madison...
Intrinsically, Gambling Lady is as absurd as it sounds but the honesty of Barbara Stanwyck's performance is as successful as that of the heroine's card playing. Good shot: Lady Lee's amazement when her husband requests her to give back to Sheila Aiken the jewels she has won at vingt...
Died. Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock Sr., 68, matriarch of U. S. polo; of complications resulting from a fall from a horse three months ago; in Aiken, S. C. Mrs. Hitchcock taught polo to her famed son "Tommy," trained among other players Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, Douglas Burden. An indomitable rider, she was acknowledged one of the most gallant sportswomen...
...lecture to be given by Conrad Aiken in the Poetry Room of Widener Library at 4.30 this afternoon will be postponed to the same time next week on account of illness...
Senatorial sponsor of the Legion program was Pennsylvania's David Aiken Reed, who last week before the Pennsylvania Threshermens & Farmers Protective Association announced his candidacy for reelection next autumn. More important, 20 Republican Senators in caucus had plumped for the Legion program. More important still, counters of political noses were sure that enough Democratic Senators would vote with the Republicans to pass the Reed measure. Most important of all, the House, which had passed the Independent Offices Bill under a gag rule, was virtually certain to side with the Senate when the measure was returned...