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...Middlebush, NJ. Dour-faced, fire-eyed and testy-tongued, she specialized in playing disreputable old wrecks. She was one of the founders of the Theatre Guild. She was the fifth famed character actress to die in recent weeks (the others: Dame Marie Tempest, May Robson, Edna May Oliver, Laura Hope Crews...
...Laura Garrison, employed since 1928, has won 17 awards. Her latest: an improved design for transmitter parts which go into highly complex aviation equipment. Award...
...Died. Laura Hope Crews, 62, veteran character actress; of a kidney ailment; in Manhattan. She spent most of her life playing the parts of bird-minded flibbertigibbets. She had a thwacking success in one serious role: the pathologically possessive mother in Sidney Howard's The Silver Cord. When sound came to the cinema she went to Hollywood, was flibberti-gibbety Aunt Pittypat in Gone With the Wind. As one of the solicitous old poisoners in Arsenic and Old Lace she played her last part; she was the fourth famed character actress to die in five weeks (the others: Dame...
...with the Lusitania in 1915. The millionaire bos'n got his first share at 21, his second at 25, will get his fourth installment at 35. "This is the life," said he. "I like my work very much. I'm just another fellow in the Navy now." Laura Mae Corrigan, 60, wealthy U.S. expatriate who became known as "the American Angel" for her war relief in France, finally had to abandon her work for lack of funds. A Cleveland steelmaker's widow who had been one of London's most spectacular hostesses for more than...
...plot, involving a maze of confused love relationships, centers about the well-meaning female scatterbrain whom we knew in Kaufman-Connoly as Dulcy. It was a role tailor-made for Billie Burke, who acted it in the original version, but Joy Street's Adele Thane plays Laura with a vitality that is not beyond compare...