Word: etta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis shoppers allergic to holiday crowds, Junior Leaguers Etta Weld and Margaret Chandler Porter last week provided what they were pleased to call a Musée De Noël. In the Hotel Jefferson they displayed a roundup of 351 articles at $5 or less, "selected impartially from St. Louis' smartest stores." Shoppers were given pencils and cards on which to note the articles and stores selling them; then orders could be telephoned...
...Etta did not so much believe in woman's rights as in her own. As daughter of the house in a stuffy Edwardian provincial town, she was expected to remain a dutiful child until she became a no less dutiful wife. Etta had what she thought were less middle-class ideas. When her parents refused to fall in line, she ran away from home to London and freedom. Stenography saved her from starvation, and a lucky encounter with a Lady Bountiful gave her a social secretary's job on easy street. A rich young socialite fell in love...
...flourishing agent's business for 20 years. Young Cecil studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, set out to be an actor. After a few seasons on the stage, he became manager of his mother's business, met Producer Jesse L. Lasky, collaborated with him on an oper etta called California. Lunching together one day in the summer of 1913, Lasky asked DeMille, "Why don't you go into motion pictures?" Replied DeMille: "I will if you will." A friend named Sam Goldfish joined them. The three pooled about $5,000 each...
Married. Mary Etta Kleberg, daughter of Texas Representative Richard M. Kleberg; and Forrest Lee Andrews. Houston attorney; in "Santa Gertrudis" on the Kine Ranch. Texas. Mrs. Andrews is a member of the Kleberg dynasty which for half a century has ruled Texas' 1,250,000-acre King Ranch of which Santa Gertrudis is the manor house. The ranch's value is estimated at $18,590,000 (TIME, Dec. 4). Present at the wedding were 2,500 guests...
Stroke of Luck tells of Etta Wickham-stead who, to escape poverty, took to the stage. As Ruth Ruthven she had an accidental success in a vampire's part. Producers tried to make her repeat in other plays; but, no flapper, Etta always flops. Her poverty returns, consigns her to rooms in Chelsea where she lives with her cousin, Stocky. Etta is straitlaced, but Stocky is voluptuously convex. One day Etta, returning from an employment agency unemployed, snatches a boy out of the path of Mr. Leverton's car. Flowers follow, and Mr. Leverton follows the flowers. Just when Etta...