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...sentimentality as we have encountered in a long time. Based on an ancient theory that an actor already firmly established as a feminine drawing card, will be twice as appealing in company with a small child, Columbia saddles Mr. Crosby with a weepy, tearstained child named Edith Fellows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...thoroughly aroused brother and sister took their curious case to court. Proceedings were further complicated by Oliver's shady behavior, by Jane's counter-machinations, by the untoward fact that Edith, Jane's girlhood friend and business partner, who owned a controlling share in Jane's prosperous theatre, fell in love with Oliver. Altogether it took two trials, a dramatic second auction, a happy and an unhappy marriage, brisk detective work and some stiff psychological third degree before the Antigua stamp found its rightful owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sister & Brother | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...Sent to the Rules Committee (over the protest of Chairman O'Connor, who wanted it to go to the "Committee on the Disposition of Useless Papers") a resolution of Massachusetts' Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers, calling for an investigation into the possibility of retiring House members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...sentimentality as we have encountered in a long time. Based on an ancient theory that an actor already firmly established as a feminine drawing card, will be twice as appealing in company with a small child, Columbia saddles Mr. Crosby with a weepy, tear-stained child named Edith Fellows...

Author: By C. D. W., | Title: THE CRIMSON MOVIEGOER | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...highways an odd vehicle, no trailer but a house car, its sides as neatly clapboarded as a village church. It was a church, complete with folding pulpit and collapsible organ, built by a New Hampshire toy manufacturer for a Baptist minister named Herbert R. Whitelock. With his motherly wife Edith Sisson Whitelock, this man of God had spent many a summer preaching in parks, factories, on street corners and village greens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Chassis Church | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

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