Word: daughterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hansi Preisinger, daughter of Oberammergau's postmaster was a candidate for the supreme role of the Virgin Mary. Custom demands that not only must the girl chosen be a virgin but she must remain unmarried for one year afterward. Hansi, ablest virgin actress, is engaged to an engineer in the power plant. So the tactful electors awarded her the role of Mary Magdalene, less important, more nubile...
Engaged. Claire E. Giannini, daughter of Amadeo Peter Giannini (Bank of Italy); and Clifford ("Biff") Hoffman, onetime (1928) captain of Stanford University's football team; at San Mateo, Calif...
Miss Helen Howe, daughter of M. A. DeWolfe Howe '87, well-known editor and biographer, will entertain listeners this evening at 8.15 o'clock in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building. Her program, under the auspices of the Divisions of Music and Fine Arts will be a recital of monologues, given for the benefit of the MacDowell Colony League of Cambridge. Every year a series of annual presentations is arranged and offered by the citizens of Cambridge, with the aid of the University, for the benefit of the League...
...family friend, he secured his first regular part, that of an aged Negro, in a melodrama at the old Philadelphia Museum (1877). He has since appeared in 325 plays, directing 33 of them. He was leading man for Mme. Modjeska (see p. 44), once supported Edwin Booth. His daughter, Cornelia Otis Skinner, is a famed monologist. One of Actor Skinner's chief rivals in the impersonation of old men is his friend George Arliss (see p. 69). Famed Skinner roles: Richelieu, The Harvester, The Honor of the Family, Kismet...
...grim, accumulative ferocity of these events is marred by the introduction of a romance between the prisoner and the warden's daughter. But it would take much more than this to emasculate Mr. Flavin's play. Largely through the gruff eloquence of the high-principled warden, magnificently acted by Arthur Byron, Mr. Flavin damns the tragic system that man has developed to police the race, makes the so-called science of penology seem as hideously false as some black, antiquated alchemy. Russell Hardie conveys every horrific tremor, mental and physical, of the unfortunate youth...