Word: ann
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organization known as the Bonstelle Playhouse, run by Jessie Bonstelle. In this theatre many good actors have played and Miss Bonstelle, a kindly, able, loquacious lady, is regarded as an expert impresario. It is said that she taught Alice Brady how to act and other able mimes-Ben Lyons, Ann Harding, James Rennie, Katherine Cornell, Helen Menken-have appeared in her productions. Last spring Jessie Bonstelle organized a drive for subscribers in order to convert her playhouse into...
Swoakabai Pandarinath Rajpurkar (female) sued Sir Tukoji Rao Holkar, onetime Maharajah of Indore, for $60,000 at Bombay for having imprisoned herself and her daughter for eleven years because the daughter would not become his mistress. The Maharajah's wife, onetime Nancy Ann Miller of Seattle, is now ill in a French Chateau...
...romantic anachronism in U. S. travel-the oldtime river packet, built like a summer hotel on a flatboat, puffing smoke from tall twin funnels set near the flat round bows, slapping up the river mud with broad paddles set astern. The occasion was a race between the Betsy Ann and the Chris Greene, two packets plying the Ohio between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Captain Chris Greene of the Chris Greene had boasted that his vessel, a steel craft built in 1925, could beat the Betsy Ann "any time." This was nothing short of insulting to a little wooden ship...
...unfaithful, and wanting a divorce soon-but not till convenient for her lover. Meanwhile she proposed to satisfy her husband's immediate desire of her, and spineless Nat accepted the situation, complete with carnal favors. Happily, none of the main characters is convincing-not even Cousin (by marriage) Ann who comes to Nat's rescue...
Born. To Ann Harding (Mrs. Harry Bannister), actress (The Taming of the Shrew, The Trial of Mary Dugan, etc.), a nine-pound daughter; in Pittsburgh...