Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could not, for a time, continue her first role as a Broadway actress?that of a maid in The Truth Game, with Billie Burke. Substituted for her was Patricia Ziegfeld, 14, daughter of Actress Burke & Producer Florenz Ziegfeld, who happened to be visiting her mother during a school holiday...
...company they are "Bob" and "Roy" (Howard particularly feels embarrassment at being "mistered"). Of the two Roy Howard, as everyone knows, is the dyed-in-wool reporter, the scoopster, the man who wants to be where everything is going on-and is. (Last week he returned from a holiday in Havana. Scripps was at his Ridgefield, Conn, estate named "Kinderwall"-"Woods of the Little Children.") Howard is the more inventive; Scripps is the balance wheel that keeps him from wild tangents...
Hugh Walpole hopes "you will not take this Tale too seriously." Writing it was a holiday for him, reading it should be only a relaxation for you. In short, it is a murder story. And of course it has a happy ending...
...Author. Hugh Seymour Walpole, pleasantly unprofound novelist, is the son of an English bishop and feels that Life is earnest. Even in such a holiday tale as this he dutifully wrinkles his forehead, doubtfully wonders about such dark questions as the borderline of sanity, the worth of democracy, Good & Evil. Walpole devotees consider him a good if not a great novelist, a battler on the side of the angels; caustic critics call him pompous and sentimental. Walpole is supposed to be represented in Somerset Maugham's recent Cakes and Ale by "Alroy Kear." snobbish, successful but second-rate English...
Goucher Girls, Goucher College (for girls) in Baltimore has a rule forbidding its students to fly to and from the city. Last week the authorities yielded to the coaxings of a dozen students, allowed them to fly home for Easter holiday in chartered planes. One ship took off for Newark. Two others headed for Pittsburgh. One of these, carrying five girls, got only 20 mi. west of Baltimore's Logan Field when low clouds turned it back. The pilot of the other Pittsburgh-bound ship, with three girls, lost his way in snow and sleet, was thrice forced down...