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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Saddened Editor | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Very, Very, VERY Tired | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dancing Girl | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Alleging that the advertising of two products sold under the name of oldtime ageless Actress Edna Wallace Hopper is "exaggerated and untrue," the Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against Affiliated Products, Inc. of Jersey City. Example: an ad which quoted Miss Hopper as saying, "I am past 60,* yet boys scarcely above college age often try to flirt with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Women, Kiss the Boys Good-bye). Two other women have made smart collaborators: Edna Ferber with George S. Kaufman (The Royal Family, Dinner at Eight), Bella Spewack with her husband Sam (Boy Meets Girl). At serious drama three women in their day won the Pulitzer Prize: Zona Gale for Miss Lulu Bett (19-20), Susan Glaspell for Alison's House (1931), Zoe Akins for The Old Maid (1935). But Zona

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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