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...first Phyllis, Ralph's wife, had the hardest time. Edna, Tom's wife, hated her and always made her feel that she was in the way in the kitchen. Her two big overgrown sons picked on Phyllis' little girl. Her husband felt bitter at Ralph for losing his place, and in an argument about whose place was lost first, the brothers got into a fight. Old Grandpa Young kept saying ineffectually that he was not going to have this contention in his house, never did have it and never would, at last wrote to Harvey for help...
...Author Thomas, despite her zest for writing about the homely details of farm life, comes perilously close to setting her characters in situations where a showdown would be inevitable-e.g., when Tom's wife recognizes the reasons for Tom's increasing amiability. But by the time Edna has fractured her back and Phyllis and Ralph have a house of their own, all tension is removed and the story comes to a classic sentimental conclusion...
...polls to record their preference for Presidential Candidates Borah and Landon. Governor Hoffman was candidate for no more exalted office than one of New Jersey's four delegates-at-large to the Republican Convention. In addition to him, the official slate of Landon delegates-at-large included Mrs. Edna B. Conklin; President Edward D. Duffield of Prudential Insurance Co., chairman of Princeton's board of trustees; and Walter Evans Edge, onetime (1919-29) Senator, Herbert Hoover's Ambassador to France. Into the fight at the last minute had jumped onetime Congressman Franklin W. Fort, who emerged from...
...which takes nearly two hours to unroll, is well worth the care which Producer Carl Laemmle Jr. bestowed upon it as his final picture before leaving Universal. Handsomely directed by James Whale, magnificently photographed by Leon Shamroy, it brings to the screen what has become a U. S. institution: Edna Ferber's story of 1926 which was the basis of the Oscar Hammerstein II-Jerome Kern musicomedy of 1927 and an indifferent part-sound film in 1929. The latest cinema version, instead of following the Ferber book, magnifies the stage show, adds three new Kern songs to a score...
Four women are aboard the Philadelphia Special: Harpists Edna Phillips and Marjorie Tyre; Cellist Elsa Hilger who popped into the news four months ago when she discovered her stolen Guarnerius in the arms of an innocent deskmate who had borrowed it from a dealer who had unwittingly bought it from a thief (TIME, Dec. 23). No musician but a competent masseuse is pretty, blonde Miss Rondum, taken along by Stokowski to give him daily rubs...