Word: ida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three's a Crowd. In Oakland, Calif., Mrs. Ida Kelly Vartanian was granted a divorce when she testified that her husband not only refused to keep the house warm enough for her pet rat but criticized it for eating too much...
...that these financial and industrial giants exercise a considerable degree of political power. That fact was being driven home very pointedly to shocked Americans during the time when Mr. Wallace was a college student. And Mr. Wallace's charges were far less well documented then were those of Ida Tarbell, Ray Standard Baker, and Lincoln Steffens...
Deep Valley (Warner) is a story about lonely people, and what the breakdown of their loneliness does for them-and to them. A remote California farm is abruptly opened to contact with the world when a convict road gang bulldozes its way into the neighborhood. The daughter (Ida Lupino), a loveless, stammering slavey, runs off and hides in the woods with a fugitive convict (Dane Clark). Her malingering mother (Fay Bainter) and her embittered father (Henry Hull), forced to depend on each other, strike off the shackles of their years of hatred. The main story centers, of course...
...Show (TIME, June 23): "I gave 'em a good, tight, 15-minute comedy show and what do they do? They expand it to half an hour and throw in an orchestra and an audience. . . . Who the hell said a comedy show had to be half an hour? Marconi? Ida Cantor...
...also a little wary of getting a reputation as an operatic spare tire. She had little cause to worry. Since she won the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air and made her surprise debut three years ago, she has sung in many a Met production-Toscx, A'ida, Cavalleria Rusticana, Madame Butterfly, etc. On the strength of such performances...