Word: edens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Garden of Eden. High were the hopes that carried first nighters to this imported mockery. The play had been a mad success in Germany; had been adapted for the local trade by facile A very Hopwood;* was reputedly risque (the cynic likes a bawdy joke as well as do the home folks); and had been proposed for various famed actresses (Jeanne Eagels, et al). Miram Hopkins† finally got the part and did well enough with it; probably better than the part deserved For the play was pale. To be sure Miss Hopkins was called upon to disrobe almost constantly...
...characters at the beginning are all Whiteoaks; there is Adeline, an old, crude, arrogant woman who wants to be 100 years old; her sons, Ernest and Nicholas, one of them over 70; Renny, present owner of Jalna, Adeline's grandson by another father; Renny has four brothers, Eden, 23, Piers, Finch, Wakefield, 9, and one sister, Meg, about...
...Eden, the limberest sheep in the flock, wrote poetry that, unlike the poetry of most fictional characters, remains wisely unquoted in the book though it is accepted by a Manhattan publisher, in whose office Eden meets Alayne Archer. When he takes her back to Jalna, sweet old Adeline pats her "with a hand not so much caressing as appraising. She raised her heavy red eyebrows to the lace edging of her cap and commented with an arch grin: 'A bonny body. Well covered but not too plump. Slender, but not skinny. Meg's too plump. Pheasant...
Five years ago, in the Chelsea district of Manhattan, stood the Eden Musee, noted for its wax figures of history's horrible episodes and its automatic checker player. This machine, mathematically inspired, was able to beat the shrewdest human players...
...London. British Incorporated Pictures Ltd. (capital: $4,850,000) claimed last week to have five-year options on film rights of John Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Eden Phillpotts, Sir Hall Caine, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and other famed British authors...