Word: birthday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Birthday (by Aimee & Philip Stuart; Harmon & Ullman, producers). How does a sensitive child feel when her widowed mother decides to remarry? According to the playwrighting Stuarts, it depends on the character of the child. When Jennifer Lawrence (Peggy Wood) agrees to marry Sir John Corbett (Louis Calhern). her younger daughter. Baba. is thoroughly pleased. Baba (11-year-old Jeanne Dante, in her third play) is a pudgy little hedonist, fond of chocolates and a general good time. Sir John wins her affection easily with a theatre party and promises to teach her to play golf, sail a boat, ride...
With Irene, who has just had her 16th birthday, it is different. She likes Sir John well enough but the notion of his sharing her mother's bed fills her with repugnance and horror. Irene has been deluded into believing that her mother's first marriage was a happy one. When Sir John and Mrs. Lawrence go off to be wed at his country place. Irene slips out into the February night to drown herself in the Thames. She changes her mind but almost freezes to death in the process. It takes the combined reasoning of Sir John, her frantic...
...because he wanted Hauptmann to plead insanity. Reilly has been nothing if not aggressive in his handling of the pre-trial ballyhoo. He criticized the New Jersey police for bungling the investigation, declaring that the case could have been settled by competent hands in 48 hours. He staged a birthday party for Baby Mannfried. He shrewdly pointed up the prosecution's weakness by trying to get a bill of particulars forcing the State to answer twelve questions in regard to its line of action. The court ruled that only the last question, "What was the cause of death?", need...
...88th birthday last week Ambrose Swasey appropriately received a planet for a present. A great benefactor of U. S. engineering (he has given $750,000 to the Engineering Foundation), white-bearded, bright-eyed Engineer Swasey has been manufacturing topnotch astronomical equipment since 1880. His firm, Warner & Swasey Co. of Cleveland, made the 36-inch Lick Telescope, the Naval Observatory's 26-incher, Canada's Dominion Astronomical Observatory's 72-incher, Argentine National Observatory's 60-incher, the mounting and housing for the 80-incher which will be the world's second largest when...
Asteroids are small planets. Recently Director Otto Struve of Yerkes Observatory discovered a fair-sized asteroid between Mars and Jupiter. On Engineer Swasey's birthday last week. Astronomer Struve announced he had christened his find "Swaseya...