Word: edna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fifth wife of the late, oft-wedded DeWolf Hopper, Hedda was born Elda Furry near Altoona, Pa., changed her first name as well as her last after marrying Hopper, partly to distinguish herself from her predecessors (Ella, Ida. Edna and Nella), partly to comply with the instructions of a numerologist. Her long connection with the cinema dates back 25 years. Credited with knowing more extramarital yarns about cinemagnates than even the relentless Louella. Hedda was signed up for a Hollywood column three years ago on the recommendation of M. G. M.'s publicity office, soon established herself so firmly...
Amorous waywardness is always trite enough in outline, but life usually fills in the outlines with subtle erotic shadings. So does Molnar. Edna Best is so plumply and seductively feminine as the wife that her unwanted virtue seems a shame. Jay Fassett, the heavy and harassed husband, is a fine figure of a man. But the show is nearly stolen by Harry Gribbon, a former Keystone cop, carrying on as a police officer. In the end Molnar the craftsman almost triumphs over Molnar the trifler's failings...
MAKE BRIGHT THE ARROWS-Edna St. Vincent Millay-Harper...
Last month Edna St. Vincent Millay was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She plans to spend the coming winter-as if in an attempt to holystone an overstuffed literary position-verse-pamphleteering about current events. The lyrics she has written in 1940 forbode Millay-things probably to come...
...wholly emotional and not in the least rational." Tony Galento: "Roosevelt will beat this Willkie just as bad as I'll beat Joe Louis the next time I catch up with the bum." William S. Knudsen (when asked whom he would vote for): "Go jump in the lake." Edna St. Vincent Millay (in an anti-Roosevelt "poem...