Word: eden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Look at Drums by Jim Boyd and The Carolinian by R. Sabatini and two little sketchbooks, Isles of Eden and A Winter of Content by Laura Lee Davidson of Baltimore, a lady whom I don't know...
...intensely partiotic, and it is hard because a woman is married to an alien that she has to give up that which is very dear to her. Woman has always been inconvenient, but she is an inconvenient necessity or she would never have been introduced into the Garden of Eden [laughter], and woman will become more inconvenient if the law of the land does not go in the way which thinking women want...
...Eden Phillpotts had not named his subsequent comedy "Devonshire Cream", "The Wife Hunter", which opened Monday night at the Wilbur Theatre, might more appropriately have been entitled "The Devonshire Hunt", or something of the sort. Certainly "The Wife Hunter" is far more applicable to a Broadway bedroom farce than to a gentle comedy of southern England. Even the old title, "The Farmer's Wife", though a trifle misleading, is better than the one finally selected, which induces a most unwarranted preconception of Mr. Charles Coburn in the role of a dashing and sophisticated Lothario...
...they were married. Tennessee also made an advantageous marriage to Lord Cook. She died abroad recently. Mrs. Martin, erstwhile Woodhull, neé Claflin, lives on, known as a "financier and reformer." She has written a number of works, including The Origins, Tendencies and Principles of Government and Garden of Eden Stirpiculture. Her recreations are scientific agriculture, psychical research, motoring (she is a member of the Ladies' Automobile Club), collecting works of art. Now she enjoys old age in Worcestershire, at her beautiful home, Norton Park, Bredon's Norton, near Tewkesbury...
...Farmer's Wife" at the Wilbur. Eden Phillpotts' delightful comery with Mr. and Mrs. Coburn...