Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Things went well for the Siebers. Marlene got six months' work in The Great Baritone, a stage production in Vienna. She took some time out for the birth of her daughter, Maria, in 1925. About a year later she got a second lead in a musical comedy, It's in the Air. She began to get starring roles in German pictures. Alternating them with stage work, she was a guest star in the Berliner Theatre when Josef von Sternberg saw her. After the show he went backstage-the squat, little man with a sharp face and Mephistophelean mustache...
Engaged. Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, England's premier duke and earl, 28; and the Hon. Lavinia Mary Strutt, 21, daughter of the 3rd Baron Belper...
Died. Mme Ernestine Schumann-Heink, 75, famed Austrian-born contralto; of hemorrhage of the throat and lungs, after leukemia; in Hollywood. Daughter of a Major in the Imperial Army, she sang in her first public concert at Graz at 15, earned $6. In 1878 she won a debut and a four-year contract at Dresden, was chosen by Cosima Wagner to sing at Bayreuth before she was brought to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company in 1898. During the War her son August died as a German sailor, her sons Henry and George Washington enlisted with the U. S. Navy...
...rampantly pro-New Deal Philadelphia Record, spectacled Gerald Aloysius ("Jerry") Doyle flays the Big Interests daily for the edification of some 328,222 readers. Last week one Doyle drawing particularly tickled none other than Eugene (Liberty League) du Pont, millionaire munitions manufacturer of nearby Wilmington, Del., whose daughter Ethel is to marry Franklin Roosevelt Jr. in June. The cartoon that delighted Mr. du Pont showed young Roosevelt as Romeo beneath a balcony festooned with elephant-cupids on which a "Juliet du Pont" (see cut) declaimed: "Tis but thy name that is my enemy. . . . What's in a name? That...
...Clifford Pierson ("Biff") Hoffman, a star Stanford foot baller ten years ago, now a San Francisco broker. Beside him sat his guest, pert, black-eyed Mrs. Audrey McCann. In the rumble were their spouses-John Mc Cann, of San Francisco's McCann Furniture Co. family, and Claire Hoffman, daughter of San Francisco's famed banker Amadeo Giannini...