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...children of a Dayton, Ohio grocer, Irna was teaching dramatics and public speaking at Dayton Junior Teachers College, where she had worked after her graduation in 1923 from the University of Illinois, when she had a bust-up with her boy friend. It occurred at a Sunday night supper; by the following morning Irna was hotfooting it for Chicago. She got her first job in Chicago as an actress with station WGN. Within a few months she was busy writing and acting in her first and almost interminable masterwork, Painted Dreams. Irna continued to turn out Painted Dreams until...
...Thursday's CRIMSON - Lampoon bingle-bust looms ever closer on the sports horizon, independent experts point knowingly to the defeat Saturday of the Brooklyn Dodgers by the Cincinnati Reds by the "highly significant" score...
Last week the Skidroad was fit to bust with pride over Sexton Fitzgerald. For his 32 years of shy and selfless service, the Pope himself had sent him a gold medal-the Benemerenti medal originated in 1832 by Gregory XVI to reward distinguished civil and military service for the faith...
...never experienced these typical acute attacks. Some of them: a college girl who "was rushed to the operating table so fast she hadn't a chance to impress the surgeon with the fact that she had just been on ... 'a walnut fudge bust' "; a man "who had just had a violent argument with his wife"; several school teachers who "were worn out with fatigue"; a young woman who couldn't digest onions; "one girl who had simply vomited her dinner...
...supporting cast Lewis lavishes his gift for satiric characterization and incident as the troupe journeys from one-night stand to one-night stand in the Midwest, as the blizzards blow, the fevers rise and the tempers explode one by one. By the time the show goes bust Bethel Merriday has proved herself a dependable actress, has fallen out of love with Andy, in love with a fiercer young actor from whose pillow she rises to make the coffee as ... the . . . curtain . . . falls...