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Evensong (Gaumont-British). Adapted from a novel by Beverley Nichols and a play by Nichols and Edward Knoblock, this picture mournfully examines the career of an opera singer (Evelyn Lave).* Irish-born Maggie O'Neill puts aside an Irish sweetheart for art's sake. At the behest of the impresario who launches her, the singer takes the name Irela. After a brilliant command performance in Vienna, she is about to run off with the Archduke Theodore when he learns his cousin Ferdinand has been assassinated in Sarajevo. Theodore marries into his own class. During the War Irela...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 26, 1934 | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

...game hunter. Engaged. Edith Cummings, 34, one-time (1923) women's national golf champion, equestrienne and big game hunter, last spinster of Chicago's famed Wartime ''Big Four" socialite beauty quartet;* and Curtis B. Munson, 41, War veteran, mining engineer; in Chicago. Married. Aidan Roark, Irish-born po loist, back on last summer's victorious Western team (TIME, Aug. 21); and Esther Foss Moore, daughter of Massachusetts' onetime Governor Eugene Noble Foss; in Carmel Valley, Calif. Seeking Divorce. Hubert Prior ("Rudy'') Vallée, 32, crooner, bandleader; from Fay Webb Vall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 22, 1934 | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...Irish-born Scottish Presbyterian named Rev. Francis Makemie journeyed to the Colonies, at the earnest request of Marylanders who had not enough ministers. Presbyterianism had been recognized, under the Act of Religious Toleration, as a sect against which no derogatory remarks were to be made. Up & down the seaboard there were scattered churches of ''Dissenters." none of them orthodox. (Two are still extant, in Hempstead and Jamaica, L. I., the former being the first U. S. church to bear the name Presbyterian.) Pioneer Makemie organized in Maryland the first five truly Presbyterian churches. In Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Makemie's 250th | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

Died. Sir William Orpen, 52, famed Irish-born portrait painter; of heart disease; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 12, 1931 | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...James Thomas Sharkey, 32, Irish-born, Boston milkman, went the first prize of $25,000. He used to get his cigarets wet while delivering milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Eloquent Milk Man | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

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