Word: edna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years it has studded its two-day conclave programs with big names, from Cordell Hull to Elizabeth Arden. This year it lined up Sir Louis Beale of the British Purchasing Commission, Missouri's Governor Lloyd C. Stark, Akron's Harvey S. Firestone Jr., Vogue's Editor Edna Woolman Chase, many another. Unlike the ivied theorists of college round tables who know what to do but are in no position to do it, Conference experts have facts & figures at practiced fingertips...
...Pennsylvania State Board of Censors banning a revised version of the MARCH OF TIME'S first full-length feature, a story of how the U. S. entered and fought World War I called The Ramparts We Watch (TIME, July 29). Reason: since The Ramparts was approved by Mrs. Edna Carroll and her assistant censors in early August, MOT had inserted 900 feet from Baptism of Fire, the Nazis' record of their Polish Blitzkrieg...
Here is another one of those exalting, exasperating Warner epics that drag on indefinitely being just too, too documentary about everything. Edward G. Robinson as Julius Reuter and Edna Best as his wife try in vain to sell their sickening sentimentality as old world charm. Mr. Robinson should stick to gangsters instead of dabbling in the German bourgeoisie. And Mr. Bassermann could also be a little less Continental and a little more convincing in his part...
...Chase brightens her Luncheons by interviewing a couple of guests of honor. She has gaily discussed man's reversion to the ape with Harvard's Earnest Albert Hooton, the worries & woes of picture-making with Walter Wanger, the business of editing fashion magazines with her mother, Mrs. Edna Woolman Chase, editor of Vogue. She is fond of titillating her listeners with attacks on too too noble women, descriptions of summer romances gone sour because "in the flush of the rush he may have neglected to tell you of his wife...
Pride & Prejudice (Laurence Olivier, Greer Garson, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mary Boland. Edna May Oliver, Melville Cooper, Edmund Gwenn; TIME, July...