Word: edna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divorced. (William) De Wolf Hopper, famed comedian, interpreter of Gilbert and Sullivan light operas, reciter of Casey at the Bat, by his fifth wife, Hedda Furey Hopper, actress. She charged misconduct. His other wives were: Ella Gardiner, Ida Mosher, Edna Wallace Hopper, Nella Reardon Bergen. At least three of these charged misconduct, divorced...
...HARP WEAVER AND OTHER POEMS-Edna St. Vincent Millay- Harper ($2.00). Lyrics, sonnets and one unforgettable ballad by one of the very first of our poets...
...than in most of the modern American poetry we have read. Coming back once more to our friend who writes in red ink on the wrapper, we can supplement his generalities with particulars. For in many of his lines Mr. Wolf strikes chords strangely similar to those touched by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Sarah Teasdale. But always he is masculine as we might expect of one who in a short but varied career has been at different times army officer, instructor of economics, reporter, radical propagandist, vagabond, and poet...
...beautiful battalions, all his comics, all his scenery, all his singers into the initial attack. After five hours of combat there were casualties. Sufficient members survived to form the nucleus for another of the greatest shows on earth. On the general staff this season are Fanny Brice, Edna Leedom, Hap Ward, Harland Dixon, Bert and Betty Wheeler, Brooke Johns, Paul Whiteman. Though with the possible exception of Miss Brice and Mr. Whiteman none of them have attained Who's Who, they are extraordinarily entertaining. The chorus, with the most extensive personnel in history, seems again to have that fatal gift...
Launzi. The season of the astute Mr. Arthur Hopkins (director of destiny for Ethel Barrymore, John Barryrnore) opened with a drama by Molnar, author of Liliom, adapted by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Pauline Lord, whose performance of Anna Christie was one of the great things of the American theatre, was the star. Particularly auspicious were the omens since the play had attained brilliant Continental success. And so the curtain rose...