Word: award
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sued for Divorce. Clifford Odets, 32, Leftist playwright (Awake and Sing, Waiting for Lefty Golden Boy); by Luise Rainer, 26, Continental actress who won the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences award in both 1936 and 1937 (The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth); in Hollywood. Charges: he brooded, stayed away nights, failed to visit her in the hospital, suggested, that she quit her career. Divorced. Eleanor Holm Jarrett, 24, onetime Olympic backstroke swimmer; by Arthur L. Jarrett. 30, jazz-band leader and crooner; in Los Angeles. Charges: he had been caused "great mental anguish and embarrassment" by her public announcement...
...Wife (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) makes it clear that, having twice won the Cinema Academy's prize for acting, Luise Rainer has no intention of resting on her laurels. Eyes brimming, lips twitching and little voice choked with tears,, she goes all out for a third award, this time in the classic role of a belle of New Orleans. Unfortunately for Miss Rainer's aspirations and the entertainment value of this picture, a great deal of cinema film has run through projection machines since old New Orleans was first presented as the epitome of U. S. historical glamor. Nowadays...
Most spectacular provision of eccentric, wealthy Lawyer Charles Vance Millar's last will & testament was an award of his estate's residue to the Toronto woman who, in ten years after his death, would prove to be the city's champion child-producer. A bachelor, Mr. Millar was not experienced enough to foresee a tie. After 17 months of legal haggling, the prize money of Toronto's famed "stork derby" was awarded last week. Four buxom, prolific, poor mothers, each having produced nine children during the ten-year period, split the money between them, received checks...
...FORUM, the competition carried a first prize of $400, several smaller prizes. But Wheaton agreed to hire the winner as architect of the art centre, pay him six per cent of the building's cost as his fee, advance him $1,000 which would be considered a cash award in case the art centre was not built. To make sure that some designs would be successful, Architects Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, William Lescaze, Richard Neutra, and the Detroit firm of Lyndon & Smith were invited, paid $400 for submitting their designs...
Each year a group of French literary notables and near-notables meets for lunch at the Restaurant Drouant in Paris, and votes for the winner of the Goncourt Prize. They are the members of the Goncourt Academy, and their sole function is that of awarding 5,000 francs to the author of "the year's best work of fiction." There are supposed to be ten members at the luncheon, but the venerable revolutionary writer, Lucien Descaves, refuses to attend meetings with Royalist Leon Daudet, always mails in his vote. After lunch, the Academy's youngest member announces...