Word: brides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mary Ann Magnin's husband Isaac, who emigrated from The Netherlands to the U. S. just before the Civil War, fought as a Confederate cavalryman, turned pushcart peddler in New Orleans. With some savings, he went to London to look for his long-lost father, found his bride in the search. Isaac Magnin then set himself up in London as a wood carver and gilder in a picture-framing shop. Late in the 1870's, the Magnin's set out for San Francisco. There Mrs. Magnin picked a shop between the business and residential districts to catch...
PREFACE TO THE PAST - James Branch Cabell - Me Bride ($2.50). Story of his literary life, mostly made up of revised prefaces to his collected works, by an ageing tenant of an ivory tower...
...Bride Comes Home" is another Claudette Colbert picture in what has become the traditional Colbert manner. It tells the story of a pugnacious girl (Claudette Colbert) and an aggressive man (Fred MacMurry) who fight and love one another. It is amusing in a rather mild way, but it does not have the robust humor of "It Happened One Night." Each of the pictures in the cycle that has followed the latter triumph has been less light, and more dependent on tenuous plots and slapstick humor. However, the two stars, with the assistance of Robert Young, make all they...
...from the Moviegoer's mind to carp too much at any of Miss Colbert's pictures, for he derives great pleasure merely from looking at her. Nevertheless, he wishes the movie moguls would give her a break and present her with a really good vehicle. In "The Bride Comes Home," she cannot ride along smoothly and easily, but has to carry the vehicle herself--which seems like very bad logic...
Married. Claudette Colbert (nee Chauchoin), 30, cinemactress (It Happened One Night, The Bride Comes Home-see p. 28), divorced wife of Actor Norman Foster; and Dr. Joel J. Pressman, 34, Los Angeles throat specialist; in Yuma, Ariz...