Word: leona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Escape This Night (by Robert Steiner & Leona Heyert; produced by Robinson Smith) will be remembered, if at all, as "the mystery story laid in the 42nd Street Public Library." For out of a welter of irrelevant, incompetent and immaterial crimes, what jut up solidly are Designer Harry Homers amazingly clever reproductions of Manhattan's famed library-reading room, Braille room, entrance lobby, even one of the snooty stone lions that guard the portals. Roaming through the vast institution with more sinister motives than are common to real life, a blind woman (Ellen Hall), her husband (Arnold Korff...
...rake of a mother-in-law, who surveys the career of her son-in-law with no illusions, and advises her daughter his wife to be faithful or the opposite with a realistic view to the husband's fortunes. Blanche Sweet is quite satisfactory as the mild-mannered wife. Leona Powers in a somewhat younger duplicate of her mother, the hero's mother-in-law, both of them being especially moving when having partaken freely of their "cough medicine." As light merriment without a mesage, this comedy will probably take its place beside "Yes, My Darling Daughter" for a successful...
...Stone) start their seasons this week. Provincetown's historic Wharf Theatre, a descendant of George Cram Cook's and Mary Heaton Vorse's old Provincetown Playhouse where Eugene O'Neill's work was first performed, carries on with a ten-week season opening with Leona Powers in Her Master's Voice. Most successful of Cape summer companies is Raymond Moore's Cape Play-house at Dennis. A landscape painter fresh from Leland Stanford, Director Moore served a hitch at the Wharf Theatre, then set up his own group in a barn. Next...
...help him. Kenneth, a cautious man when sober, will buy anything when drunk, and the climax of Woman Chases Man is the way in which Miss Travis gets Kenneth's signature to the contract for Nolan Heights. Her efforts are complicated by the connivings of Nina Tennyson (Leona Maricle) whom Kenneth has brought home with him from European travels and who designs to victimize him so that she can live at ease with her true love Henri (Erik Rhodes). To forestall Virginia's schemes, Henri, at one point in the proceedings, chases her into a magnolia tree...
Meanwhile in. New York State, law enforcers were aroused over a young couple who had been illegally married since Jan. 15-Stanley Backus, 18, and Leona Roshia Backus, 12. Armed with a marriage license giving Leona's age as 18, and with their parents' approval, the couple had been married in Carthage by a Methodist named Rev. William K. Bradshaw who, like every one else concerned, was deceived by the bride's appearance. She weighs 112 lb., looks mature in grown-up frocks. Last week a medical examination showed her to be pregnant, and according...