Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Merrily We Roll Along (by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart; Sam Harris, producer). "What are you having?" a young man at Richard Niles's party asks Julia Glenn (Mary Philips) in the first scene of this play. Too bored to hand him her glass, she says: "I'm having not much fun." The acts that follow explain why not only Julia Glenn but Richard Niles (Kenneth MacKenna),the successful playwright who is her host; Althea Royce (Jessie Royce Landis), the aging actress who is his wife, and most of the other members of the large cast fail...
...Astoria this afternoon. Mr. Malott, who has been publicizing the Business School, will talk on "The Young College Man in the Depression." The speech will be put on the National Broadcasting Company's chain. Other speakers at the session will be Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mayor LaGuardia, Will Irwin, Glenn Frank, Pearl Buck, Hugh Walpole, Dorothy Thompson, Emily Post, Dr. Stanley King, Miss Frances Perkins, and Robert M. LaFollette...
...Lime Rock, Conn., Winslow Wilson painted two moppets called The Mora Children, heard his picture would have the place of honor at the annual art show. Opening day, Painter George Glenn Newell's cow picture Clear and Cold had the best place. Furious, Artist Wilson tore down the cow picture, hung up his own. Hour later the cow picture was back. Portraitist Wilson, with canvas, rushed away, opened a competing one-man one-picture show in an empty 18-room house, challenged Cow Painter Newell to a duel with canvas and brush, promised a $100,000 suit...
...Married. Glenn Cunningham, 24, holder of the world's record for the mile (4 min. 6.7 sec.): and Margaret Speir, his classmate at University of Kansas; in Marion, Kans...
...Homer Cummings calls her husband (6 ft. 2) 'Pinkie.' . . . Isa Glenn, novelist, meeting Mrs. Johnson at tea, blurted out: 'Oh, Johnson's all right, just so it's no relation of that terrible general' -and spent the rest of the afternoon searching for a happy ending...