Word: annes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ernest Pascal's dramatization of his novel, which attracted by it? By its clinical title, and was swept into the ephemeral list of bestsellers. The play opened last week in Manhattan after a happy spell (with a Hollywood cast) on the Pacific coast (TIME, Oct. 29). Mary Boyd (Ann Davis) the "thirtyish" but personable wife of George Boyd (Allan Dinehart) is apprised, by her meddling mother (Elizabeth Patterson), of Boyd's unfaithfulness. To Rochester he has gone on a business trip, accompanied by Christine Kennedy (Helen Flint); openly he has carried on the affair with Christine. But Mary stills...
...sales value of rare books is far more than an alibi. This was never more startlingly demonstrated than last week at the Manhattan auction of the books collected by famed songwriter Jerome David Kern (Kalua, Raggedy Ann, Who, Old Man River} of Bronxville, N.Y. At that sale Dickens' Pickwick Papers (perfect copy, first edition) sold for $28,000. Fielding's Tom Jones (first edition, uncut, original binding) brought $29,000. Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes (original manuscript of twelve chapters) topped the sale at $34,000. A total of 748 items brought...
...Ann Arbor, Joseph E. Maddy of the University of Michigan School of Music, worked on the details of a plan whereby a National High School Orchestra of some 150 of the most talented high school musicians will go next summer to Europe, play at the World Conference on Education at Geneva, at the Anglo-American Music Conference at Lausanne, perhaps in London, Berlin, other capitals...
Disembarking at Boston in 1656, Mary Fisher, "a religious maiden," and her companion Ann Austin, Quakers, were welcomed by hangman, by gaoler. The hangman made a public bonfire of all books found in their possession. The gaoler, after examining them for evidence of witchcraft, clapped them into jail, where they lay five weeks. Then the religious maidens were shipped back -to England...
...Ann Arbor, at the University of Michigan, are nearly 10,000 students. For the several thousands who must board in Ann Arbor homes, the Board of Regents planned last September an $800,000 dormitory. At this, there arose bitter and prolonged outcry from some 7,000 landladies who will be left boarderless...