Word: laura
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daughter of Princess Anita Stewart Miguel de Braganza, Manhattan socialite, and the late pretender to the throne of Portugal; from one Vadim Dorozynski, son of a sometime Russian naval officer; in Reno, Nev. Grounds: incompatibility. Sued. William Benson Storey, president of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry., and his wife Laura; by Rev. Ulysses Grant Warren, of Corning, N. Y., for $200,000. Charge: alienation of the affections of Mr. Warren's wife, Edith, Mrs. Storey's cousin. Mrs. Warren filed suit for divorce in Minden, Nev. Declared Mr. Warren's attorneys: "No scandal is connected with...
...Author- Margaret Kennedy (Mrs. David Davies) dictated stories before she could read or write, wrote her first novel, Laura, at 15. She burned it soon after, as she did four more novels, three plays. She went to Somerville College, Oxford, sang in Sir Hugh Allen's famous Bach choir. After she took her degree she was commissioned to write a modern European history textbook (A Century of Revolution) over which she spent two years, from which she gained much useful writing practice. With her second published novel (The Constant Nymph, 1924) she became a bestseller. Very English-looking, with...
...Like That (Columbia) is a distressing but feeble commentary on situations of social discord in an outlying Army post. Jilted by a dashing lieutenant (John Wrayne), the girl (Laura La Plante) marries his friend, who is a colonel. Later, to preserve the morals of her young sister, she compromises the lieutenant so seriously that he nearly loses his commission. Based on Augustus Thomas' play Arizona, which was produced in 1899, Men Are Like That seems a needless survival of an insignificant intrigue. A typically trite shot is the one with which the picture starts: an Army-Navy football game...
...Union City, N. J. Laura del Vecchia, 4, tapped on a neighbor's plate-glass window with a stick. A Mrs. Intermaggio, wife of the owner of the window, rushed out and scolded Laura del Vecchia. Laura's grandmother hurried up, scolded Mrs. Intermaggio. Laura's father bustled up, scolded Mrs. Intermaggio too. Intermaggio arrived; he and Laura's father fought, grappled, crashed through the plate-glass window, had to be taken to a hospital, were arrested, locked up in jail...
...Though to say, 'there is no God' proves one a fool, yet it does not deprive him of his heritage as a citizen, nor of his standing." So last week declared the Alabama Court of Appeals at Montgomery, Ala., in convicting Laura Knight, negro, of the murder of her atheist husband. On his deathbed Atheist Knight had accused her of murder. The lower court which first tried Laura Knight would not accept his statement, believing that since an atheist believes in no hereafter, he fears...