Word: isobel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bargee in question was one Isobel Stone, 23, lyric-soprano, who was discovered last week, with her sister, Margaret Stone (Mrs. Richard O'Neill), living rent free upon a wretched scow near the slums of Manhattan. She was not a bargee by birth; her father indeed was the late William A. Stone, onetime (1899-1903) Governor of Pennsylvania, defender of famed Harry K. Thaw. A millionaire and a man of fashion, called "Pennsylvania's greatest Governor," he had died in 1920, his large fortune dissipated in unfortunate speculations. Isobel Stone with her sister Margaret was compelled to earn...
...addition to the winsome Mr. Marston, the cast of this play includes the Margaret Lawrence who has long been absent from Broadway, and the less famed but more beautiful and perhaps equally capable Isobel Elsom. Its production is lavish in all details. Yet, probably because characters in it are permitted to say, when on the point of departure, "Is it ... for good?" or to remark, brightly, about sugar, "A lump a "day keeps the levers away," The Behavior of Mrs. Crane is not really so very entertaining...
Officials of the Canadian Pacific told that later, this year, will be launched two more "Duchess" ships, namesakes of Mary, Duchess of Beaufort and the late Isobel, Duchess of Richmond, who died...
...question without answering it, a method of which the virtues are herein made obvious by contrast. Nonetheless, there are occasional moments when the play achieves the warm pungence of its author's later works; these are often fumbled by the minor members of the cast but never by Isobel Elsom who plays Mrs. Jones or by James Dale who plays her husband with a loud and feline cockney accent...
...Justice of the Peace in a neighboring town in his little roadster. Superintendent Sweeney hears of it, and Cannon-Ball Casey is told to break all records in getting to Oxford ahead of the eloping pair. In rapid succession the audience is offered a limited "running wild". . . . . Old "Isobel" proving her worth . . . . a smash up in which a load of hay plays a major part . . . . a record lowered . . . a marriage almost thwarted. Almost, mind you. Leave the climax to Casey and Luke. They do everything but "Tell It To Sweeney...