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Seeking Divorce. Nancy Hoyt, 29. author (Unkind Star, Bright Intervals), sister of the late Poet Elinor Wylie ; from Edward Davison Curtis; in Reno, Nev. Auinor Hoyt is a sister of Morton McMichael Hoyt, who, twice married to Jeanne Bankhead (sister of Cinemactress Tallulah Bankhead), prankishly jumped off the S. S. Rochambeau into mid-Atlantic (TIME, July 30, 1928 et ante...
Like all professions, literature is roomy at the top. To that top few women have aspired; fewer still in their own lifetime have arrived. This generation has had its fair share of authoresses who were first-class writers: the late Elinor Wylie and Amy Lowell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Willa Gather, Colette, Virginia Woolf. Of this little list Virginia Woolf stands preeminent. Never a popular writer, always dangerously clever, she writes not as one enameling teacups but as one embroidering a theme; her theme is life...
Married, George Arthur ("Mike") Thorne Jr., ski and sledge man of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, grandson of the late George R. Thorne. co-founder of Montgomery Ward & Co.; and Mrs. Elinor Gates Toerge, tennis player, trapshooter, golfer; at Brookville...
...really began when Benjamin P. Schulberg, Paramount's Western managing director of production, then associate producer, signed her to make silent cinemas in 1925. She was then a well-stuffed Brooklyn redhead with a Coney Island character. Two years later, when she had been the incarnation of Author Elinor Glyn's It, she was the most famed cinemactress in the U. S. She had her name made into a big electric sign for her father to hang outside his Brooklyn restaurant...
...Elinor Whitney and Dorothy, buxom, frizzy-haired daughters of Manhattan Pastor Harry Emerson Fosdick, were appointed "grass cops" at Smith College. Armed with whistles, they will blow a smart blast whenever they see trespassers treading tender turf...