Word: elinor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Married. Elinor Patterson Codman, onetime beauteous nun of The Miracle, onetime reporter, and frequent flying companion of her father Joseph Medill Patterson, potent publisher of the Chicago Tribune, Liberty (nickel weekly), the New York Daily News (tabloid); and Griffith Mark, son of Chicago steelman Clayton Mark; at Greenwich, Conn. Her first husband (divorced 1929) was Russel Sturgis Codman Jr,. of Boston...
...Moment (First National). Billie Dove re-establishes an oldtime tenet of picturemaking, to the effect that if an actress is good-looking enough she does not need to have stories written for her or to know how to act. Elinor Glyn was hired to make up some thing about a bride who gets out of her husband's stateroom on the wedding morning, but the plot is halfhearted, as though its famed authoress were conscious that her fatuities were required simply for the sake of convention. It is a picture for people who like love on yachts and among...
Married. James Cash Penney Jr., son of the chain store tycoon and Prohibition zealot; to Miss Elinor Snyder of Manhattan and Rye, N.Y.; in Manhattan; by Dr. Daniel Alfred Poling, president of the International Society of Christian Endeavor, onetime official of the Anti-Saloon League...
ANGELS AND EARTHLY CREATURES- Elinor Wylie-Knopf ($2.50). According to her publishers, Elinor Wylie arranged for publication this slim volume of tristful poems on the day, last December, before she met her sudden death from a paralytic stroke (TiME, Dec. 24). She had found the title in John Donne: "But, because Angels could not propagate, nor make more Angels, he enlarged his love in making man, that so he might enjoy all natures at once, and have the nature of Angels, and the nature of earthly Creatures, in one Person...
Death, passion and intelligence played prime parts in Elinor Wylie's verse. To "One Person" she dedicated a wreath of 19 love sonnets. The octet to the fifth...