Word: edna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...EDNA MORRIS DEVIN...
...found their way to the U. S. as refugees. By last winter they were a unit again, eager to act. Few knew any English, but they plugged away at the language. They had no resources, but they found such sponsors as Mr. and Mrs. George S. Kaufman, Irving Berlin, Edna Ferber, Max Gordon, Sam H. Harris. Last week they presented their first U. S. revue...
While the U. S. almost had a coal shortage and Europe as usual was on the verge of war, the editor of Vogue, Mrs. Edna Woolman Chase, last week addressed the Shoe Guild on another weighty problem. Said...
...days later Barrymore filed suit in New York's Supreme Court for a separation from his wife. He also demanded from his wife, her mother, Mrs. Edna Jacobs, and their "confidential adviser" an accounting of $300,000 of his funds which he alleges they secured from him in money and property over a course of time. At week's end the defendants had not filed an answer to either suit...
...later is adroitly prefaced with sequences showing Vernon Castle teaching his new wife his routine and then failing utterly to impress Fields; the genesis of the tip-toe Castle Walk, designed not to disturb the occupants of the Paris apartment below their own; and their meeting with Maggie Sutton (Edna May Oliver), who gets them their first engagement in return for a dinner...