Word: lew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington Patent Office. His daughter was born the first autumn of the 20th Century on Washington's P Street, Northwest. Her education was at parochial schools. Abetted by a mother with theatrical ambitions, Helen Brown made her Broadway debut in 1909 in Old Dutch. Elders like Lew Fields, Vernon Castle and John Bunny crowded her out of the press notices. Not until five years later did she get any notices at all. These referred to, her as "fanciful," "whimsical," "pixylike" when she appeared as a first-act child with the late John Drew in The Prodigal Husband. John Drew...
Play, Genius, Play! (by Judith Kandel; Lew Cantor, producer) is another Sin & Temperament drama. A violinist who tires of fiddling, seeks surcease in the apartment of one of his brother's friends. The friend happens to be a lady in satin pajamas named Didi, and she gives him surcease aplenty...
...Speaker's other arm is Lewis Deschler. "Lew" Deschler is neither a Democrat nor a Representative. He is a young, black-haired Republican who was brought to the House by Speaker Longworth. He sits below and at the right of the Speaker, playing the role of House Parliamentarian. Regardless of politics, he holds his job because he is able to advise the Speaker how to dissolve parliamentary tangles as the Administration wishes them dissolved. He shies at photographers and blushes when he talks but is one of the most important people in the House, the brains which make...
Majestic--Lew Fields in "Old Dutch...
Calling All Stars (words & music by Lew Brown & Harry Akst; Lew Brown, producer). There are at present three other musical shows in Manhattan.* As a group, they are above-the-average entertainment. Some have better scenery, better dances, better lyrics than Calling All Stars. But Producer Brown's show need yield nothing in such notable moments as these...