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...goes to meetings of Pasadena women's clubs, is active in the Pasadena Drama League, Community Playhouse Association. But of first importance to her is her husband's comfort and privacy which she, too, guards vigilantly. Also at Pasadena will be Frau Einstein's friend Edna Stanton Michelson, wife of Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, who is carrying on new light measurements. Mrs. Michelson is a daughter of the late Edgar Stanton, onetime U. S. Consul at St. Petersburg. She has been married to her scientist for 31 years, has three children, four grandchildren. She speaks and reads...
...hall-bedroom. They get married, await the birth of their child. Each, fearing that the other does not want the baby, pretends distress at its imminence. Not until after the child has been born-on- stage, by means of shadowgraph-and after a great deal of advice from Edna (Charlotte Winters), a well-meaning friend, do the inarticulate young couple reach a happy understanding. The shortcomings of Bad Girl are not attributable to poor stagecraft or bad acting, but to the triteness and insignificance of the characters, story, dialog. Assuming that all of God's creatures lead lives that...
...scene of Mirthful Haven is Maine, where Tarkington has spent many a summer (at Kennebunkport) ; the principal characters are Maine natives. Villains of the piece are the "summer people." Edna Pelter is the pretty but declassee daughterof Long Harry, lobsterman and owner of a shack that summer visitors view as an eyesore and a disgrace. Visitors and villagers alike look down on the Pelters: the feeling is reciprocal. But the old Captain Embury, retired sailor, No. 1 citizen of Mirthful Haven, who could always make his voice heard above "the roarin' of the tem-pest," likes the Pelters, likes...
...When Edna's step-grandmother offers to give her an education she leaves home unwillingly to be made into a lady. When, several years later, her step-grandmother dies and Edna comes home again, she has changed so much outwardly the villagers fail to recognize her. Complications follow almost immediately. In her absence her father has turned rumrunner; he never tells her, but she guesses it. Worse, in her new-found social world she has met and liked the two sons of her father's most implacable enemy among the summer people. They have never connected her with...
Dream Waltz of a Newark matron (Mrs. Edna R. Passapae) and a Brooklyn dance-master (A. J. Weber) was adopted as the official waltz of the year, demonstrated by President Sheehy and his daughter Katherine. Tempo is slower than the famed Boston Waltz, the steps are long and combine waltz, hesitation and running movements. ''Long dresses," declared Matron Passapae, "are bringing back the waltz because its gliding smooth steps are the ones that look best for young women in the new attire...