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Loud and Base. In Berkeley, Calif., Mrs. Edith Bell went to court for an in junction restraining a couple of her neighbors from making faces at her dog and uttering "loud noises of a base character...
Priestley Sentiment. Many character types from earlier Priestley novels reappear in the Elmdown Aircraft factory: Sammy Hamp, whose limp and withered arm accentuates the humility that makes him the happiest man in the place; Edith Shipton, the sex-starved spinster whose shoddy affair with a headmaster is replaced by genuine love for the implacably good Arthur Bolton, whose family and little shop have been obliterated by a Nazi bomb; Sister Filey, in charge of the clinic, whose female vitality is boundless and unbounded by the usual conventions...
...Jesus' time, and were later translated into Greek. Goodspeed maintains they were originally written in Greek. One of Goodspeed's greatest thrills came in 1927 when he found a rare 13th-century New Testament manuscript in a Parisian antique shop. He got the late rich Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick to buy it for him ($25,000), then he edited the three volumes, called it the Rockefeller McCormick New Testament...
Died. Gloria Gould Bishop Barker, 37, glamor girl of the '20s; by drowning in her swimming pool; near Phoenix, Ariz. A granddaughter of Financier Jay Gould, daughter of Famed Stage Beauty Edith Kingdon Gould, she gave a dance recital at Carnegie Hall when she was 16. She married her first husband at 17, as a playfully ambitious young heiress. Served as a professional greeter at a Broadway movie house and otherwise attracted attention with interviews on marriage, motherhood and careers for women. She deserted society in 1930 after her second marriage, to Contractor Walter McFarlane Barker...
Married. Anna Neagle, 34, fair-haired, cinemadaptable dancer-actress (Irene, Nurse Edith Cavell); and Herbert Wilcox, 49, British producerdirector, her longtime movie mentor; each for the first time; in London...