Word: ida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ida Lupino's doctor ordered her away from Hollywood and into the desert for a long rest...
Introduced a year ago by the late Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, the Sheppard Bill was almost entirely written by dynamic, bright-eyed, 70-year-old Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, now serving her ninth term as W.C.T.U. president. A onetime resident of Iowa, where she scared the State Legislature silly, she is a great backroom politician, rates high with reporters, to whom she furnishes plenty of sprightly copy...
Left. By Circusman John Ringling; to the State of Florida: some $20,000,000, the bulk of his estate. A $5,000 annuity was left to a sister, Ida Ringling North, in a codicil to an original will that left her half the estate...
...Ida Lupino, proving again that she ranks among the screen's top-flight actresses, gives a restrained and intelligent performance as the murderess who kills her benefactress in order to provide a home for her two helpless sisters. Louis Hayward is excellent as her conniving nephew. And each of the supporting roles is masterfully handled, with an attention to detail that fills every scene with an unmatched intensity and impact...
...story itself is unable to hold the show together and the net result is a mixture of good little bits scattered through an evening of mediocre entertainment. Particularly fine is the end of the show when Eddie Cantor steps out in blackface to render such old favorites as "Ida" and "Margic," in the best of vaudeville style. But the performance smacks too much of that vanished type of theatre to be thoroughly pleasing today...