Word: edna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Mrs. Constance Edna de Bower, onetime actress, from Herbert F. de Bower, Manhattan broker, in Reno. She declared she would marry Jacques Achille Louis Raffray, insurance broker, whose former wife fortnight ago married Ernest Aldrich Simpson, ship broker, whose former wife six months ago married he Duke of Windsor...
Married. Mrs. Edna Christian, 43, widowed mother of Charles J. B. Christian, 6, who is a great-great-grandson of Fletcher Christian, leader of H.M.S. Bounty's mutiny; to David Young, head of the present settlement of 204 persons on Pitcairn Island, where the eight rebellious English sailors, 18 Polynesian men & women landed in 1790; on Pitcairn...
...companion feature is entitled "Dear Miss Aldrich," and, strangely enough, it succeeds in being almost funny at times. Edna May Oliver stretches her face to unprecedented longitudinal dimensions, Maureen O'Sullivan glides along in a manner that is just too, too demure, and the audience seemed to enjoy themselves in a mild way. "Dear Miss Aldrich" tells the tale of a girl's fight for recognition in a newspaper man's world; it is not recommended for consumption unless the reader is feeling in a particularly receptive mood...
...Bennett, who spurned the stage for the screen, now comes back from the screen to the stage to tell about a girl who refused to spurn the stage for the screen. If this minor irony doesn't obtrude itself upon your attention, you will find George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's "Stage Door" a rather absorbing bit of sentimental comedy. With Mr. Kaufman monopolizing the Boylston-Tremont region, go see "You Can't Take It With You" first, then "Stage Door", and finally "I'd Rather Be Right"; or, proceed in the reverse order if you don't intend...
...Edna Bandler is the white-haired intense-eyed widow of a rich diamond merchant. Until two years ago she lived in a mansion, full of gilt and marble, which John D. Rockefeller built years ago in West 54th Street for his son John D. Jr. She now dwells, and conducts prophetic services for a small band of followers in a lushly-furnished duplex studio in West 57th Street, a neighborhood in which nourish many swamis and faith-healers...