Word: edna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effort was made to find CWA projects for women and for skilled laborers. Actually about 5% of those hired were skilled. Many strange things had to be found for the white collar people to do. For example, last week in Missouri a group of professional singers headed by Miss Edna Haseltine was hired at 35¢ an hour, sent out into the Ozark hills to give grand opera?only it was not called that for fear the natives would not attend. Admissions charged in different towns were turned back to buy materials for local CWA projects. Elsewhere unemployed musicians were hired...
Editor of Tiny Tower is Bosco Cass, who uses her real name, Edna Cass Noll, only when signing the adult poetry she sometimes writes. She graduated seven years ago from Emerson College, where she gave weekly readings in Boston's Little Children's Theatre. Later Bosco Cass be came a performer in a Shubert musicomedy, a clothes model, a schoolteacher, a reader for a literary agent. Her notions for Tiny Tower she tries out on public school children. When they disapproved of a modernistic Santa Claus on the cover, she substituted an old-fashioned one, teasing...
...Carter's hand and throwing Airman Vidal and Treasury-man Roberts, two former football stars. Here also Jim Farley rode a horse for the first time, he said, in his life, getting on with some difficulty while a secretary held his watch. Will Rogers rode the same horse, Edna May's King, retired undefeated champion stud of the world, a horse that Morrison says he paid $40,000 for and refused...
...frame for juxtapositional drama of the type that came into fashion with Grand Hotel, a fashionable dinner party is ideal. As a frame for one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's all-star casts, the play by Edna Ferber and George Kaufman which was produced in Manhattan last winter was even better. The actors in Dinner at Eight selected by MGM's new producer David Selznick, make the cast of MGM's Grand Hotel, produced by Irving Thalberg, look like a road company, make the picture-less biting but more comprehensive than the play-superb entertainment. Under Director...
After Playwright Marc Connelly (The Green Pastures) & wife were refused permission to enter Russia with a group of tourists which included Edna Ferber, Ralph Pulitzer and Sugar Heiress Dorothy Spreckels, the Soviet Foreign Office investigated, admitted a misunderstanding, ordered the Connellys be let in at once...