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...English words in the same sentence, had not yet separated them into two systems. Unexplained were her choices between German and English words for the same thing: she preferred ice cream to Eiskrem, bathe to baden, flower to Blumen, cake to Kuchen. But she said bitte instead of please, Bett instead of bed, da instead of there, mehr instead of more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Ice Cream v. Eiskrem | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...Boys Good-bye). Two other women have made smart collaborators: Edna Ferber with George S. Kaufman (The Royal Family, Dinner at Eight), Bella Spewack with her husband Sam (Boy Meets Girl). At serious drama three women in their day won the Pulitzer Prize: Zona Gale for Miss Lulu Bett (19-20), Susan Glaspell for Alison's House (1931), Zoe Akins for The Old Maid (1935). But Zona

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...informality is achieved by the cast sitting down with the script writers few days before, sometimes tussling all night with the job. The Circle's, original members were Ronald Colman, a ten-year holdout against radio work; Cinemactress Carole Lombard; Leading Man Gary Grant; Baritone Lawrence Tib-bett; Groucho and Chico Marx; Robert Emmett Dolan and his orchestra. Early guests were Pianist Jose Iturbi, with a swing item in his repertory and "okeydokey" in his vocabulary, and Noel Coward, who upstaged everybody, gave Carole stagefright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Costly Circle | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Died. Zona Gale Breese, 64, novelist, essayist, playwright (Birth, Preface to a Life, Yellow Gentians and Blue); of pneumonia; in Chicago. In 1921 she won a Pulitzer prize for her dramatization of her own novel, Miss Lulu Bett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 9, 1939 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...went back to Portage in 1904, settled down to write. When she married, about five years ago, she took a Portage man, William Llywelyn Breese, banker-manufacturer. The U. S. is conscious of her chiefly as authoress of some twenty-odd books, of which Miss Lulu Bett is most famed (her dramatization of it won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize). Wisconsin knows her as a liberal in education (onetime regent of its University, her alma mater), as a progressive in politics (she took the stump in 1924 for the last "Fighting Bob'' La Follette), as a humanitarian writer with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wisconsin Zephyr | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

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