Word: edna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James John Walker at Cape Ferrat, French Riviera, but not too ill to chirp: "Do I eat like I was sick or dead?" Edna Ferber, infected in London, convalesced at nearby Nice. In Paris the American Hospital opened two special wards to care for numerous LL S. victims. Forehanded Paris undertakers formally declared that they were short of coffins...
Before a Connecticut justice of the peace one Edna Newton, 21, sulkily accused a Louis Rebuzzini, 28. of fathering her child. The justice believed her. Louis Rebuzzini hired a resourceful lawyer, who in turn hired Dr. Alexander S. Wiener, Brooklyn blood specialist. Dr. Wiener took samples of blood from mother, child and alleged father, examined the bloods this way & that according to the dicta of Nobel Laureate Karl Landsteiner. Last week litigants, lawyers and blood man appeared before a county court in New Haven...
...Penguin Pool Murder," on the same bill, is a moderately entertaining but trite mystery-comedy, with occasional good bits of performing by James Gleason and Edna May Oliver...
Since last week the experts know what the tuberculous girl is like, can pick her from the crowd. Edna E. Nicholson, investigator, described the typical tuberculous girl after looking at the coffins and talking to the relatives of the 678 girls who died of tuberculosis in New York City during...
Commendable in purpose, workmanlike in execution, The Conquerors suffers mainly from delusions of grandeur. The first part of the picture is charming. Ann Harding manages to disguise with gayety that virulent nobility which often injures her characterizations. Guy Kibbee and Edna May Oliver contribute expert characterizations, she as the proprietress of a dilapidated hotel, he as her husband, an inebriate doctor who manages to be grandiloquent even when he chooses to sleep in a gutter. Later a certain galloping becomes evident in the tread of The Conquerors. It is held together mainly by the rhythm of coincidence and double exposures...