Word: lena
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James A. ("Bud") Stillman Jr., who married Backwoods Girl Lena Wilson at his mother's famed camp at Grande Anse, Que. (TIME, Aug. 8, 1927), is studying medicine at Harvard Medical School. Last week his wife told the press this story: ''Bud rescued a poor crippled boy who was being tormented by a crowd of other boys. He took an interest in the boy and tried to rehabilitate him by psychoanalysis. He was half starved. Bud fed him and was kind to him. At first he was suspicious, for nobody ever had been kind to him really...
...about "foreign labor." When Barber Arico reached London, he found the Kenny hair (see cut) had already been submitted to local shears. Mr. Kenny explained he wanted to give his old friend a vacation. Remarked the London Ex press: "The acquisition of millions tends to make men absurd." Russell ("Lena") Blackburne, manager of the Chicago "White Sox" (American League) baseball team, reached for a telephone after arguing unsuccessfully in a Philadelphia hotel with his husky, young, inebriated first baseman, Art Shires. Infuriated, Baseman Shires wrecked the room, blacked Blackburne's eye,- also pummelled Lou Barbour, the club secretary. Baseman...
Third Day. Ever eastward, she crossed the Obi River, the Yenisei, the Lena. For 300 miles passengers saw no towns, just forests, rivers and swamps flecked occasionally by a typee. For some hours the ship lost radio contact with civilization, then picked up a Japanese station, then the U. S. Naval station at Peiping (Peking). She was near the arctic circle. Weather was chilly, the moon ruddy...
...character parts. She had been a free lance for seven years when Paramount signed her. She did more character parts, then she was featured in a college story, finally starred in a succession of shoddy program pictures. Last fall von Sternberg directed her in The Case of Lena Smith, one of the year's best pictures. Now she has been demoted to doing "featured" parts again. She is 5 feet 5? inches tall, weighs 124 pounds, is not stupid...
...hour version of Sir James M. Barrie's half-hour play made vocally effective by Ruth Chatterton. The Shopworn Angel: A chorus girl and a soldier, without a happy ending. The Wolf of Wall Street: Artificial but exciting melodrama of human stock and bondage. The Case of Lena-Smith: An Austrian servant-girl does not wince nor cry aloud. The Wind proves that Lillian Gish is still the best picture actress...