Word: edna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cast is good. It brings to us once more Edna Hibbard, in our midst a few weeks ago as Dorothy in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes". To be frank, Miss Hibbard is not so pleasing as she was in her other vehicle, but this is largely because she is left out of the wisecracking mentioned above. The part assigned her rives her by no means the opportunities she had when exchanging bon mots with June Walker. Love has come into the life of Elzy Everetts, played by William Boyd, and apparently this has disastrous effects on ex-gunmen. He and Harry...
Picketers' Appeal. For "sauntering and loitering" in front of the State House in Boston, 156 men and women were arraigned, found guilty. All but six were fined $5 and paid the fine. The others? Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet; Ellen Hayes, retired Wellesley College professor; John Howard Lawson, playwright; William Patterson, Negro lawyer; Ela Reeve Bloor and Catherine Huntington, liberal gentlewomen?were fined $10. Lawyer Arthur Garfield Hays of the American Civil Liberties Union counseled them to appeal their cases, as tests. His argument...
...Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote a poem beginning, "Let us abandon then our garden and go home." She also picketed, was jailed...
Laurels. The convention named Edna Browning Ruby of Lafayette, Ind., as the "most outstanding business woman" and Judge Florence E. Allen of Columbus, Ohio, as the "most outstanding professional woman" of the nation. Miss Ruby is the only U. S. woman engaged in the business of ecclesiastical art. She designs, builds and installs art-glass church windows and also attends to the interior decoration of churches. Judge Allen has been on the bench of the Supreme Court of Ohio since 1923, was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U. S. Senate...
Died. John Dempsey, 38, brother of onetime heavyweight champion William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey; in Schenectady. In poor health, temporarily insane, he shot and killed his wife Edna Dempsey, 21, then himself...