Search Details

Word: frieda (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Spring Song (by Bella and Samuel Spewack; Max Gordon, producer) shows the misfortunes which overtake the Solomon family, Ma (Helen Zelinskaya), Tillie (Frieda Altaian) and Florrie (Francine Larrimore) when Ma refuses to give Florrie $10 to go to Asbury Park. Deprived of a chance to see her own beau, Florrie goes out with Tillie's. The result of this excursion is a baby and a shotgun wedding. By the time the baby arrives, it is plain that in trying to make her daughters do the right thing, Ma Solomon has made bad matters worse. Florrie's beau marries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 8, 1934 | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...husband satisfactorily, but soon after the curtain rises begins to have trouble with her children. Her daughter Liza (Lila Lee, oldtime cinemactress trying for a legitimate comeback) is a bobbed-haired nymphomaniac consorting with a London gossip writer who carries cocaine and an automatic. And Daughter-in-law Sybil (Frieda Inescort) thinks she is understood only by a vain popular novelist. Shrewd Lady Jane puts Sybil and the novelist in adjoining bedrooms outside which a nightingale is singing. As Lady Jane expected, they take advantage of propinquity. And as she also expected, flighty Sybil is sorely disappointed that her spiritual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 24, 1934 | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...Dear Sister . . ." wrote one Frieda Zorn of Berlin to her sister in New York. Her letter, opened by Nazi censors, never reached "dear sister." Last week a Nazi court sentenced her to 15 months in jail for writing "false reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Months & Months & Months | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

...Sweden for a prize; an unhappy young doctor (Glenn Anders) with a cancer cure, a neurotic wife (Lora Baxter) and a movie star mistress (Claudia Morgan); a Catholic Bishop headed for Rome with an atheist crony; a Broadway columnist with a Park Avenue vocabulary and an infatuated wife (Frieda Inescort). Also aboard .the Atlantia is its rapacious owner who compels his captain to break the transatlantic record although they both know the vessel has dilapidated plates. This leads to an exciting last act in which the troubles of the Atlantia's passenger list are resolved by maritime disaster. Written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 22, 1934 | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...state dinner at the White House ended the Supreme Court's preholiday session. The Justices and their ladies found the table decorated with pink chrysanthemums, ate a bit of cheese for National Cheese Week, were entertained by Pianist Josef Hofmann and Soprano Frieda Hempel afterward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: No Quorum | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

Previous | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | Next