Word: eva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Respectful Prostitute (translated from the French of Jean-Paul Sartre by Eva Wolas; produced by New Stages, Inc.) reached Broadway from Paris via Greenwich Village. Produced in February by a Village group only founded in October, The Respectful Prostitute throve so well in a bandbox that it is now tackling the big time. There it may thrive, too, thanks about equally to skill and sensationalism...
While the first headlines blazed (and while Manhattan gossip columnists scrambled to assure their readers that they had known all about the romance for months), herds of reporters were dispatched to find an answer to the question: Who is Eva Sears? Hearst's Cholly Knickerbocker (Ghighi Cassini) haughtily announced that she was Mrs. Barbara Paul Sears of the fine old Philadelphia Pauls and thus a society girl of impeccable pedigree. He was wrong. Mrs. Sears was Cinderella, at least by all city-desk specifications...
...mattress factory, married a carpenter named Peter Neveckas, settled down in an apartment near the stockyards. Jievute went to Chicago's Healy Grammar School, where two big things happened to her-she discovered that she was a very smart girl and she began calling herself Eva. At Englewood High School she shortened Paulekiute to Paul...
Blonde, buoyant Eva Paul had spontaneous, unaffected gaiety. She also had pretty legs. When the Lithuanian Daily News sponsored a Miss Lithuania contest in 1933, 17-year-old Eva Paul won it, ruled as Queen of Lithuanian Day at the Chicago World's Fair. When her mother and stepfather moved to a farm near Lowell, Ind., Eva slipped easily into the affairs of the town high school. By the time she was graduated in 1935, she was president of the Red Pepper Social Club and had acquired the highest of adolescent accolades-she was a "popular girl...
...seven years as Mrs. Sears, Eva made many friends and picked up one of those nicknames which women of café society wear like amusing jewelry. Hers was "Bobo." The Searses lived in Boston, where Bobo did war relief work; in Los Angeles, where she played minor roles in motion pictures; and finally in Paris, where Sears was third secretary in the U.S. embassy. Eighteen months ago, at a dinner party given by Mrs. Elizabeth ("Liz") Whitney, Bobo met Winthrop Rockefeller...