Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...touches of Minsky that labelled past shows as "college." Audiences are going to enjoy "Fair Enough," because it is fast, gay and tuneful but they are not particularly going to want to see it repeated in the future. Art for art's sake is all right, but Edward C. Lilley, the Pudding's professional producer, must learn that in college shows art can go too far for its own good...
...York County's sleuthing young District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey last week acted on a tip from no less a master of sleuthing than Author E. (for Edward) Phillips Oppenheim. Sunning his shrewd old head in Monte Carlo, Author Oppenheim had dispatched a cable to District Attorney Dewey. Result was the apprehension of a gentleman who in life is as suave and distinguished as any of Oppenheim's international intriguers...
When beefy, bullet-headed Valentine Edward Charles Browne, Viscount Castle-rosse, England's No. i chitchat columnist (Daily Express), fell sick in London's Claridge's Hotel, he disobeyed his doctor's orders by continuing to gulp champagne, devour oysters, receive socialite friends. Result: his doctor moved him to a maternity ward...
...York, Florida, Massachusetts and Texas each wanted a taxable slice of the $36,000.000 kitty left when, nearly three years ago, Death came to peg-legged, pleasure-loving Colonel Edward Howland Robinson ("Ned") Green, son of that fabulous old miser, Hetty Green. Colonel Green, who liked to fly his own blimp, collect jigsaw puzzles, jiggle pocketfuls of diamonds, buy "anything that snapped," maintained residences at one time or another in all four States. Last week the U. S. Supreme Court settled the matter by deciding that $5,000,000 should go to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, because Colonel Green "spent...
...liberal Episcopal Churchman. Mr. Caswell thus stated a dilemma which bothers many a religious liberal. It was posed for him last month by a Nazi Bund rally on Washington's Birthday in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. That rally loudly cheered Adolf Hitler and Rev. Charles Edward ("Silo Charlie") Coughlin, loudly booed President Roosevelt ("Rosenfeld" to Bund speakers). Ejected from the meeting was Pundit Dorothy Thompson, who laughed shrilly at a speaker's citation of the Golden Rule. The rally was perfectly legal, and Bund-sters' freedom of speech was protected by police. All this moved...