Word: ida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theodore F. Ball '48--Nancy Dembent (Mt. Ida Jr. Coll...
...judge by the film, the sisters were rather like Little Women on an overcast day. Father Brontë (Montagu Love), though a grouch, was not really a bad old sort. Emily (Ida Lupino) found stimulation in a skyline wreck which she called "Wuthering Heights," and frequently flared her nostrils at the moors. Charlotte (Olivia de Havilland), a pretty, man-apt, comfortable soul, was the last sort of girl in the world you would expect to write a novel, even Jane Eyre-which, one gathers, was just a drugstore romance. Arrogant Brother Branwell (Arthur Kennedy), more true to history, drowned...
...they help keep it glittering. The Met got a third of its funds from radio fans in its last appeal for help. Curious to know its radio fans' taste in opera, the Met asked 123,000 of them to pick their favorite operas. The choices: 1) A'ida, 2) Carmen, 3) La Traviata. Among operas less frequently heard, listeners picked Hansel and Gretel, Boris Gudunov, and Der Rosenkavalier. (The Met promised to broadcast all six next year.) Notably unchosen: Wagner...
...Americans can rightfully share the guilt felt by Mary Ida Burnite...
...Ida Cantor, wife of pop-eyed Eddie, was scared pop-eyed but only "slightly injured" in a three-part auto accident: the Cantor car was first struck by a furniture van, then kettle-drummed by 40 bales of hay toppling from a truck...