Word: edna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...G.I.S and British brides, the following excerpt is taken from a letter which I recently received from Miss Edna Scotchmer of London, who was my secretary in London during 1943 when I was employed there as a civilian...
Paul White: Sea Chanty for Harp and Strings (Harpist Edna Phillips with string quintet, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). Blow the Man Down, Tommy's Gone Forever and When Johnny Comes Down to Hilo saltily done. Performance: excellent...
Show Boat (music by Jerome Kern; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; book adapted by Mr. Hammerstein from Edna Ferber's novel) is still one of the most satisfying of all musicals. Few shows can boast a more delightful score. Instead of seeming dated after 18 years, Show Boat is merely very nostalgic: it brings back the '203 through the ear and the '903 through...
...Ozark hills, near Vienna, Mo., a carpenter named Henry Westerman was killed by a delayed reaction from a hen's egg. Nineteen years ago a 12-year-old girl named Edna Adkins wrote her name and address on it with a pencil. The egg was sold, shipped to St. Louis, served hard boiled in a restaurant. Westerman got it, read it, ate it. Charmed, he looked up Edna, courted and married her. They had five children, the oldest of whom was a boy named Gene. Last week, because Edna had decided she liked Neighbor Ben French better than...
...been packed by expert hands with practically everything a film needs for a triumphant box-office tour. In the top drawer of this expensive portmanteau, Ingrid Bergman is wonderfully bewitching in a black wig and bustle, and Gary Cooper drawls and sprawls in his best skin-tight cow-pants. Edna Ferber's plot slides them expertly through a period-piece romance without missing one of the primary Hollywood emotions...