Word: ida
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporter was reconverted to Christian hope. Leaving the theatre, he overheard Miss Ida May Sparrow, who plays the leading feminine role. She complained to the manager concerning the imperfect acoustics of the stage. (Mr. Dixon, the reporter then recalled, was afflicted at the time with a hoarse throat...
...IDA ELISABETH-Sigrid Undset-Knopf ($2.50). Story of modern marriage guaranteed complete in one volume, by the prolific authoress of Kristin Lavransdatter...
...these are gone, and their ghosts exist only in critiques of the period. Ida Tarboll is remembered chiefly for her popular inanity, 'Lincoln.' Baker is linked solely with his book on Wilson. Lawson, Lloyd, Phillips, Russell--they are resurrected as local color for an historical novel and then return to comfortable obscurity. Lincoln Steffens, more virile than the others, survived two revolutions and awaits a third. But to survive he has had to cut himself loose from the mentality of the epoch in which he made his name known; his companion passed civilly away in the dull garb of progressivism...
...copy, Charlie became a hero overnight. He left his job, went to London to be lionized, photographed, interviewed, presented with a check for ?500. Charlie was a sensible lad and kept his shirt on through all the hullabaloo, but when he found himself in a theatre-box with Ida. winner of a newspaper beauty contest, he lost his head with his heart. Ida was out of the same social drawer as Charlie, but she had ambitions: she really believed she was well on the road to Hollywood. While she was still in the midst of her tinsel glory Charlie went...
...that the real hero of his fire had been completely overlooked, he tried to set the affair to rights. But partly because the other man was a Communist, partly because Charlie's story was now old stuff, no one would pay any attention to him. He looked for Ida, but the cinema studios knew her not. Eventually, of course, he found her again; and the upshot, of course, was happy...