Word: isa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sterner Galleries Arthur Kaufmann, capable and colorful German emigre, showed character studies of the late George Gershwin, Luise Rainer as a plain and pensive 17-year-old in Düsseldorf. At the Georgette Passedoit Gallery were 23 oddities by a healthily impudent 21-year-old Danish girl named Isa Neuhaus. In the U. S. for one year, she has had 20-minute sittings with Bishop Manning, painted subtly all in mauve; Leslie Howard, all in green; Mayor LaGuardia...
Away from London last week slunk snubbed Emperor Haile Selassie (see p. 18), but glad British hands were extended by King Edward and many another in London to His Highness Sheik Sir Hamad bin Isa al Khalifa, ruler of the Bahrein Islands in the Persian Gulf of Iran...
...outstanding Eli performers are Captain Norris Hoyt in the 440 and the backstroke and Johnny Macionis, Sophomore star, who is ISA champion in the 220-yard race and is also a consistently good performer in the breaststroke...
...Homer Cummings calls her husband (6 ft. 2) 'Pinkie.' . . . Isa Glenn, novelist, meeting Mrs. Johnson at tea, blurted out: 'Oh, Johnson's all right, just so it's no relation of that terrible general' -and spent the rest of the afternoon searching for a happy ending...
...rendition of the "Song of the Volga Boatmen," but what Mr. Balieff used to call "De Prade uf de Vooden Sojus" is happily omitted. Instead, there is a charming mechanical toy number, which Mr. Yushny has to wind up from time to time, called "Souvenir Lowere de Suisse." Miss Isa Kremer, a local Diseuse, appears to please audiences most with an astonishing repertory of songs, beginning with a French lullaby, skipping blithely through an Italian street ballad and an old English lyric to end up with the impersonation of a Kentucky mountain woman sewing as she sings. And although...