Word: eva
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Visiting Eva Le Gallienne, actress-directrix of Manhattan's Civic Repertory Theatre, on her farm near W'eston, Conn., was her good friend Actress Josephine Hutchinson. They went to the basement with a maid to light the gas water heater. The heater exploded, knocked Miss Le Gallienne unconscious, burned her and Miss Hutchinson severely. The maid, also scorched, ran for the gardener. The gardener put out the flames, took the three women to Norwalk hospital. The maid was found not seriously injured, the actresses will recover without disfigurement...
Seeking Divorce. Mrs. Eva Baur Hansl; from Raleigh Hansl, retired Manhattan stockbroker; in Bridgeport, Conn. She called her husband an "incurable Princeton man," because he made her live in Princeton from 1918 to 1921 while he took graduate courses, and suggested that they should live together as "college chums...
...Shedden has since 1919 been spiritual lord of the Bahama, Turk and Caicos Islands-a diocese embracing 13,122 church members, 83 churches, extending some 175,000 square miles of land and sea. To visit his flock he had embarked on a six-week boating trip, taking with him Eva Shedden, his sister and housekeeper, Rev. Donald Knowles, an Anglican missionary, and a crew headed by Capt. Joseph Taylor, Negro...
Died. Mrs. Eva Lee Tardy McAdoo, relict of the late William McAdoo (New York City's longtime chief magistrate, onetime New Jersey Representative in Congress. Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President Cleveland); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Friends & admirers of honest Magistrate McAdoo, who left only $500, had donated $33,000 toward a $100,000 fund to keep Mrs. McAdoo and her daughter...
...Acting is not merely being natural, but an artistic projection in terms of the individual performer. Like the playwrights, they too have to struggle against unimaginativeness of the audience. Mr. Brown selects Otis Skinner and Mrs. Fiske of the old school and Pauline Lord. Katherine Cornell, the Lunts and Eva Le Gallienne of the younger generation to show how this problem of stodginess is being met in practical theatre presentation...