Word: edwina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Still in rehearsal last week was still another grand-scale ice show, the European All-Star Ice Revue. Its cast includes two dozen British skaters who found themselves jobless this winter, Switzerland's famed Armand Perren (King Leopold's skating instructor), South Africa's Edwina Blades and New York's peppy Audrey Peppe (twice runner-up for the U. S. amateur figure-skating championship), who turned professional last week...
...begin with are as slick and typical a pack as ever cavorted through a Louis Bromfield serial in Cosmopolitan, after the rain they seem sadly washed out and anticlimactic. Chief among them are Tom Ransome (George Brent), a remittance man from a good county family, his old flame Lady Edwina Esketh (Myrna Loy), who deserted him to find a rich husband, and Major Safti (Tyrone Power), the handsome, high-caste Indian surgeon for whom Lady Esketh wickedly sets her cap. While trying to keep his friend Safti out of Lady Esketh's clutches, Ransome has his hands full with...
Lord & Lady Louis Mountbatten. Lady Mountbatten, born Edwina Cynthia Ashley, is a famed British beauty, great & good friend of Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt...
...Harvard Theatre Collection in Widener Library, for safe keeping, and in return for this gift, the Theatre Collection was to subsidize the necessary experimentation to have the originals salvaged. The interest of Henry M. Rogers '62, oldest living graduate of Harvard, and close friend of Edwin Booth's daughter, Edwina, was secured, and his generosity permitted the experimentation to proceed...
...Edwina Austin Avery, publications editor of the Bureau of Plant Industry, pointed out to the House Civil Service Committee how unfair the law is to marriageable lady jobholders, how it spoils their prospects with all the job-holding males in Washington. Some girls, she said, prefer to risk their souls in sin rather than risk their jobs in marriage. E. Claude Babcock, head of the American Federation of Government Employees, testified that he personally knew of at least nine cases of jobholders living together without benefit of matrimony. Before nightfall, the question of Spread-the-Work v. Spread...