Word: isobel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stage. Ghosts do the work, all too picturesquely, that cries out for living men. At its worst, the play is mere drivel. When the final curtain comes down on the family drinking a toast, it seems like the conclusion of a homemade English boarding-school playlet. When Moll Flanders (Isobel Elsom) rustles archly across the stage in her duchessy silks, mouthing fancy, ye-old-tea-shoppe truisms, she brings to mind Penrod and his friends acting out Mrs. Lora Rewbush's egregious Arthurian "pageant...
...Captain Dale, reaches his peak in a nine minute speech which holds the audience breathless; Sylvia Weld and Rachel Hartzell are excellent as Dale's daughters, the stubborn and intelligent spirit of the former nicely balancing the dry, almost cynical, humor of the latter. Outstanding are the portrayals of Isobel Elsom and Lillian Foster as Moll Flanders and Mrs. Stowe respectively. Aline Bernstein's set and costumes are well conceived, and Mr. Rice's staging, though at times over-grouped, is effective...
...Both husband and wife must sign a joint agreement permitting the wife to bear the child of a third person. The identity of the donor is kept secret, and if he is married his wife must give her written consent as well. Other practical suggestions made by Drs. Frances Isobel Seymour and Alfred Koerner of Manhattan : 1) A physician should never consent to use a relative as donor. Too many emotional complications may follow. 2) A donor's blood group should correspond to that of the husband so that legal disproof of the child's paternity is impossible...
THIS LIFE I'VE LOVED-Isobel Field- Longmans, Green ($3). The step-daughter of Robert Louis Stevenson recalls with a benevolent serenity unusual in artists' memoirs, her varied life in Nevada mining camps, San Francisco's art colony, Hawaiian King Kalakaua's court, in Samoa as amanuensis to Stevenson during his last days...
Died. Mrs. Isobel Carothers Berolzheimer, 36, "Lu" of the radio trio "Clara, Lu 'n Em," wife of Professor Howard Berolzheimer of the Northwestern University School of Speech; of pneumonia; in Evanston, Ill. Ill with influenza in Evanston lay "Em," Mrs. John Mayo Mitchell. On the air nearly six years, their gossipy act was conceived when the three were Zeta Phi Eta sisters at Northwestern...