Word: eva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little happens. Frivolous, warmhearted Madame Ranevsky (Eva LeGallienne) returns, after years abroad, to the old family estate where she lives with her daughter, stepdaughter and fibreless brother (Joseph Schildkraut). They will lose their home, she learns, unless she sells off their beautiful cherry orchard. This she cannot bear to do; to her, the symbolic part means more than the actual whole. So the estate is sold, Madame Ranevsky goes back to a worthless lover in Paris, and her incompetent brother gets a job in a bank...
...Eva Tanguay, at 65, was back in the news in Los Angeles. The arm-throwing, hair-shaking shouter, whose I Don't Care made her one of vaudeville's biggest stars in her youth, had periodically been reported near death during the last ten years. Last week she charged that Elza Schallert, a writer at work on her biography, refused to give back her autobiographical notes. Eva wanted the notes...
...Identical twins Eva and Hannah Sakamoto, studying nursing at the University of Colorado. Former University of California students and high-school glee clubbers, they got scholarships from their church (Methodist) education board to finance their Colorado studies...
Yare Vera Zorina, 26, born Eva Brigitta Hartwig in Kristiansand, Norway, became a U.S. citizen. "This is what I've waited for all my life," said...
...Gobineau (1816-82), one of the first racists, who in Essai sur I' Inégalité des Races Humaines argued that only the white races are capable of creating culture; of Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855-1926), the fantastic Englishman who married Richard Wagner's daughter Eva, and wrote that Germany is the master race...