Word: laura
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...safe bet that whenever TIME pans a (Continued on p. 69) movie that movie is usually a darn good show. I can't conceive of anyone not liking Showboat and in my opinion Laura LaPlante did better work in that play than she has ever done before. Also she does not meet the description with which TIME credited her. That is the only picture I can think of now which got panned but I know there have been others...
...second act the celebration is repeated for orchids. The cast is headed by Odette Myrtil, a rough-voiced Parisienne who makes pantherlike glides around the stage while playing cardiac tunes on her violin. This combination of music and motion is popular, but by any comparative standard the name of Laura Lee, the show's small, vivacious song-plugger, should also be featured...
...LAURA E. CARSON Oklahoma City, Okla...
...knew a short, plump, brown-eyed, dark-haired schoolteacher with a wealthy sire and Puritan blood. Her name was Laura Celestia Spelman. When they were 25 each, John D. married her. The next year (1865) from dabbling tentatively in the oil that was gushing up in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, John D. became an oilman to the exclusion of all else. His refining firm was Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagier, later (1870) the Standard Oil Company. Railroads whose good customer Standard became helped Standard suppress competition by furnishing reports on competitors' shipments. John D. hated having rivals. By 1877 one company...
...Education Board. In 1909 came the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission to control hookworm in the U. S. In 1913 (the year of the Colorado Fuel strike) the Rockefeller Foundation was formed and the Sanitary Commission recreated as the International Health Board. Three years after Mrs. Rockefeller died he created the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial (1918). At the beginning of 1929 the fields of these were revised and their organizations reduced to two?the Rockefeller Foundation (international) and the General Education Board (exclusively U. S.). Their combined capital endowment last week was more than $203,000,000. Since their foundings the four...