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...Nurse Edith Cavell (Imperadio-RKO), the austere-faced, 50-year-old Englishwoman who was executed by a German firing squad in Brussels in 1915 for aiding the escape of fugitives from German prison camps, has appeared as the heroine of three cinemas. The first, and most bravura, version was made in the U. S. in 1918, year before Nurse Cavell was reinterred by the British in Norwich Cathedral and Germany took the villain's rap at Versailles. In 1928 British Producer Herbert Wilcox presented in Dawn a more objective edition in keeping with the forgive-&-forget spirit of Locarno...
...EDITH C. MCINTYRE...
...stand the strain. When he died in 1935 sales were picking up, and he left his own galleries the job of auctioning off his collection of art objects, books and engravings. Executors of the Bishop estate included his widow, Amy Bend Bishop, and his old friend and employe, Edith Nixon. Widow and friend were both dissatisfied with sales of the Bishop art. They looked about for a book expert to help courtly President Hiram Haney Parke (art specialist who had been with the company 25 years, had run it for Owner Bishop since 1923) sell the books. The man they...
...Maid (Warner Bros.) is a drama of anonymous mother love, circa 1861-80, outwardly as dated and dusty as a daguerreotype. To bring Edith Wharton's old-fashioned story to life on Broadway four years ago required the highly finished services of Actresses Judith Anderson and Helen Menken, oldtime Playwright Zoë Akins. To make it live on the screen, Warner Bros, teamed their pop-eyed Bernhardt, Bette Davis, with an equally fiery filly from off the home lot, honey-haired Miriam Hopkins. The result flounces its skirts a little more boldly than the stage show but, like...
Birthdays. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, 78, wife of the late President, with a party, in Oyster Bay, L. I.; Richard Whitney, 51, former president of the New York Stock Exchange, quietly, in Sing Sing; Hugh Samuel Johnson, 57, columnist and former NRA head, quietly, in Bethany Beach, Del. Said General Johnson: "I sure hate to reach this...