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...topped by any songwriter for sheer cleverness: in Bunthorne's confession that he is an "aesthetic sham," to name just one memorable example, he sings. "This air severe/is but a mere/veneer.... This costume chaste/is but good taste/misplaced." And Lady's Jane's second-act solo, sung by the exemplary Ethelwyn (Muff) Worden, to this day speaks to the audiences of Doctors Tarnower and Pritikin...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Patience, Impatients | 4/23/1981 | See Source »

Maugham was furious at the suggestion. Now Calder advances proof -direct testimony supported by persuasive circumstance-that Rosie was based on a woman named Ethelwyn Sylvia Jones. As Calder reconstructs it, she was the second daughter of a minor playwright, herself an actress, beautiful, intelligent, full-blown, artlessly warmhearted. Maugham met her in 1904. Their affair lasted until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rosie and Willie | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

Supplying Mr. Cortissoz' wants was child's play for Librarian Ethelwyn Manning and her 30 assistants. She is prouder of the library's special services. The library has the finest collection of photographs of illuminated manuscripts in the world. Frick photographers have toured the Pyrenees taking pictures of Romanesque and Gothic paintings made long before Giotto was born. Over 1,000 portraits and miniatures have been photographed in private homes in Virginia, South Carolina, Kentucky, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, Nantucket, Pittsburgh and Bermuda. The library is not too busy to recommend reading lists for ladies' clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Picture Library | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

Married. Frank Richards Ford, 54, president of the L. C. Smith & Corona Typewriters, Inc.; to Ethelwyn Linnell, J. P., honorary county magistrate; at Pavenham, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 21, 1927 | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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