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Rachel Field's fictionized biography centres on Henriette's six years in the Praslin household, emphasizes her genius with children, her unimpeachable tact in dealing with her violently jealous mistress, her innocence of the scandals that linked her name with the handsome Duc, the injustice of contemporaries (among them Victor Hugo) who characterized her as "a rare woman...at once wicked and charming...
Natty, sandy-mustached Manager Holliway is a jealous guardian of the radio time he controls. He tossed a bombshell into the 1936 election campaign with the announcement that KFI and KECA would not carry President Roosevelt's fireside chats during the campaign unless the stations were paid for the time. Well might Manager Holliway vary from the norm. His boss is the stormy petrel of California broadcasting: Earle Charles Anthony, automobile dealer with a State-wide chain of Packard agencies, who took up radio in the early days, believing it might provide communication between his agencies. Instead of organizing...
...England has its own difficulties to overcome; but it is now providing a daily service of excellent quality to many thousands of viewers. It is a travesty of the facts to describe it as a dismal failure; and as a regular, if transatlantic, reader of TIME, I am jealous for its reputation for accuracy. STEPHEN TALLENTS British Broadcasting Corp. London...
Born in 1809, Fanny Kemble was the last of the celebrated, exceedingly proud, theatrical "Kemble dynasty," the most famous of whom was Mrs. Siddons. The proudest, John Philip, whom Byron called "supernatural," sulked in retirement because he was jealous of Mont Blanc. Spoiled by her father, owner of Covent Garden theatre, Fanny was so high-spirited that at her French boarding school the only punishment that could subdue her was seeing a guillotining. Until she was 19 the Kembles had no thought of making an actress of her. Then, as a last resort to save Covent Garden from bankruptcy...
...book of personal reminiscence by Vincent Seligman,t son of Puccini's close friend, Sybil Seligman, a British-born musical amateur. Without attempting to rival Biographer Specht's scholarship. Biographer Seligman gives a more intimate picture of a fastidious, cultured musician who was loved by a fearsomely jealous wife, who himself loved motorboats, feminine society, high-powered automobiles...