Word: honeymooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best Years is a drab little play about a woman who spends the best years of her life taking care of a neurotic mother when she might be enjoying the gayety of a honeymoon in Siberia. So strong is the hold of Mrs. Davis (Jean Adair) on her daughter Cora (Katherine Alexander) that Fred Barton (Harvey Stephens) has to do his courting under her watchful eye. When Cora starts for a dance with him Mrs. Davis collapses in the footlights. During the entire third act Mrs. Davis lies unconscious on a sofa in full view of the audience while other...
...Gulf hurricane was wrecked the yacht Wild Duck, floating clubhouse of the Sabine Pilots' Association. The Wild Duck was once the pleasure craft of Andrew William Mellon. She carried Mr. & Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. on their honeymoon. In the Kiel Canal she had as guest Wilhelm II. For a time she was chartered by Harry Kendall Thaw, whose guests were Evelyn Nesbit and William Travers Jerome. In the Mexican Revolution of 1910 she evacuated 200 Americans from Vera Cruz, was hit by shellfire...
...York slums. It shattered most of his dreams about the nobility of the downtrodden. Upon the wreckage, amid the dirt and filth of Spring Street, he built up a practical philosophy about the masses which serves him to this day. In 1910 he married Frances Violet Stewart. Their honeymoon was spent on a tandem bicycle. Born to the Presbyterian Ministry, he went through Union Theological Seminary, emerging, after a newsworthy dispute with his elders on tenets, a Bachelor of Divinity...
Married. Ralph De Palma, 49, automobile racing driver; and one Marian Leggett, 36; in Las Vegas, Nev. Honeymoon: seeking a job for him on Hoover Dam. Married, Sylvia ("Madame") Ulback, 51, Hollywood masseuse, author of gossipy Hollywood Undressed; and Edward Leiter, 39, actor, nephew of the late Chicago Tycoon Joseph Leiter; during a thunderstorm in Egremont, Mass. She divorced her first husband, one Andrew Ulback, secretly last fortnight in Mexico. Divorced. Ethel Catherwood McLaren, Canadian gymnast, "most beautiful woman athlete of the 1928 Olympic Games"; from James Gillan McLaren of Toronto; in Reno. Grounds: nonsupport. She intends to marry...
...innocent night together in an empty house; after Halcyon turns her hand to the drama, and Eden makes a name acting in her hopeless play, the two children, for all their frequent scrapping, come to marriageable terms. Wringing a grudging consent from their parents they set off on their honeymoon. Their trials and tribulations on their wedding night, their subsequent reconciliation in a hall-bedroom not included in the bridal suite, must have their hotel-proprietor smiling...