Word: edna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...author of Adventures in Paradise doesn't actually write it. The Islands of the Pacific are the setting, except you never see them. The star gets fan mail from a lot of people who have never seen him act." As for Author Michener, said Crosby: "He is the Edna Ferber of the South Pacific...
...tribute to the late Ethel Barry-more, the Tufts Theatre concluded the season with The Royal Family. George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber wrote this play 32 years ago as an affectionate spoof of the whole Barrymore family in the Twenties when it was the reigning theatrical dynasty...
...with his own money, Tijerina launched two tuition-free "Little Schools of 400" in the neighboring towns of Ganado and Edna near Houston. Purpose: to teach 400 words of basic English to 42 five-year-olds, all of whom spoke Spanish only. After 3½ months the "graduates" entered first grade in the town's public schools-where more than half the Mexican-American first-graders had failed the year before-and all passed with flying colors...
...tribute to the late Ethel Barrymore, director Marston Balch and the company of the Tufts Arena Theatre have revived The Royal Family. And with this early (1927) George S. Kaufman-Edna Ferber comedy, these industrious young student-performers conclude their 1959 summer season, by taking us back to the Roaring Twenties when the Barrymores were the reigning theatrical dynasty...
...July 24 Ellery Queea (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Lee Philips as the grand gumshoe - admirably supported by Edna Best, Judith Evelyn, Russell Nype - is confronted with murder while lecturing a small, socially elite group. Color...