Word: hilda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep people from starving is the Federal Relief Administration's chief job, but it likes to give them food for the mind as well as the body. So it pays Hilda Smith, friend of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and onetime dean of Bryn Mawr, to sponsor a summer School for Workers on Manhattan's East side. There unemployed teachers get jobs and unemployed workers become pupils, get $8 a week. Last week newshawks wandered in, discovered a rack in which supplementary reading was provided for the pupils...
...lenses and film were imported by Cousin Jorge. Chilean mechanics made the cameras and sound recording apparatus. The naval attache of the U. S. Embassy, eager to help the President's kinsman, acted as his casting director. For heroine he cast Chile's leading radio singer, Miss Hilda Sour...
...extremely smart is Cousin Jorge that he persuaded the State Mining Bank to pay $32,000 toward backing his development of Chile's first talkie. As a result Heroine Hilda Sour stars in a plot concerned largely with copper and gold mining in Northern Chile. As many shots as possible were taken in the garage near the Alameda de las Delicias which proved so noisy by day that most of Chile's first talkie had to be made at night...
Stingarce (RKO-Radio) is an Australian bandit (Richard Dix) of the 1870's, named after a barb-tailed fish difficult to catch. A whimsical rogue who gallops about on a white charger, he kidnaps a composer (Conway Tearle), later an orphan named Hilda Bouverie (Irene Dunne) who falls in love with him. The bandit arranges for the composer to hear the girl sing, goes to jail while she prepares to become a great diva. Stately Miss Dunne succeeds as convincingly as do most cinematic songsters, but inevitably she is drawn back to Australia...
...foes of Senator Long were trying to put the "Kingfish" and his crowd on trial instead of Senator Overton. The inquiring Senators scattered, dismissed their counsel. For nine months the inquiry slept. Fortnight ago it was revived as the result of vigorous protests from such outraged Louisianans as Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hammond, sister of one of the publishers of the anti-Long New Orleans Times-Picayune, and her Women's Committee of Louisiana (TIME...