Word: edna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scene of Mirthful Haven is Maine, where Tarkington has spent many a summer (at Kennebunkport) ; the principal characters are Maine natives. Villains of the piece are the "summer people." Edna Pelter is the pretty but declassee daughterof Long Harry, lobsterman and owner of a shack that summer visitors view as an eyesore and a disgrace. Visitors and villagers alike look down on the Pelters: the feeling is reciprocal. But the old Captain Embury, retired sailor, No. 1 citizen of Mirthful Haven, who could always make his voice heard above "the roarin' of the tem-pest," likes the Pelters, likes...
Dream Waltz of a Newark matron (Mrs. Edna R. Passapae) and a Brooklyn dance-master (A. J. Weber) was adopted as the official waltz of the year, demonstrated by President Sheehy and his daughter Katherine. Tempo is slower than the famed Boston Waltz, the steps are long and combine waltz, hesitation and running movements. ''Long dresses," declared Matron Passapae, "are bringing back the waltz because its gliding smooth steps are the ones that look best for young women in the new attire...
When Composer Joseph Deems Taylor collaborated with Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay on the opera The King's Henchman in 1927, their work evoked such acclaim that Composer Taylor was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera to do another. First he worked on Heywood Broun's allegorical Candle Follows His Nose, dropped it, set to work on Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning Street Scene. In November 1929, he shelved that, went into seclusion at his home eight miles from Stamford, Conn, for a third start. Last week he emerged, announced that "by the grace of God" he had finished libretto...
...Leisure." Excerpt: "Probably the thing from which I derived the most benefit in connection with The Five Arts* was the contact I had with outside speakers. . . . A day or so spent in the company of such men and women as Harry Emerson Fosdick, Thornton Wilder, Bertrand Russell, and Edna St. Vincent Millay are opportunities that few are fortunate enough to have...
...Manhattan, decorous readers of the New York Times were amazed by an advertisement: "Edna F. Your folks from California are here and feel something terrible about you. Charlie is drinking again. For Goodness sakes phone hotel, Katy...