Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...novel, The Hard-boiled Virgin, Death came to Authoress Newman. Vanity Fair was embarrassed. Last week came another such occurrence, less embarrassing, no less unhappy. Several months ago a young aviatrix submitted a manuscript to Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis's The Country Gentleman. It was called "My Life For Aviation." Editor Philip Sheridan Rose accepted the story, changed its title to ''How I Learned to Fly," ordered it to be inserted in the September issue. The name of the authoress was Marvel Crosson. Last week as some 1,600,000 copies of The Country Gentleman were about...
...have given my life to prove that women are the best pilots in the world...
...financial and business interests of a great part of the Northwest are united in it. President is George Harrison Prince, head of First National of St. Paul, native of Amherst, Mass., but acquainted with northwestern banking from the ground up. Now 68, he has spent 50 years of his life in the small and large banks of Minnesota. Vice President is Lyman Wakefield, head of First National of Minneapolis. The list of directors, incomplete last week, is to include the presidents of seven railroads. Chairman of the Board is Clive T. Jaffray, President of the SooLine (previously president...
...Dance of Life (Paramount). When Arthur Hopkins and George Manker Waiters wrote the play Burlesque, they somehow extracted, the maximum amount of sentimentality from a story which was even then not altogether new but which became for the first time extraordinarily successful. How a loyal dancing girl forced her alcoholic, small-time husband into a big part, how she stuck to him when good luck made him forget her, how she bucked him up in failure, was immediately used with variations as a theme for so many pictures that it was hard to believe that Paramount's delayed production...
Good wines come from Burgundy and so does Mme. Gabrielle Colette. Colette, who acted Léa in the 1925 dramatization of Cheri, is the onetime wife of "Willy" (Novelist Henry Gauthiers-Villars) and of Biographer Henry de Jouvenel (The Stormy Life of Mirabeau, TIME, Aug. 5). Now free and 56, she is short, wellrounded, long-eyed. She likes good food, the Mediterranean, the wildcats she keeps in her small but colorful Palais Royal flat. In literature Authoress Colette is distinguished for presenting the human side of animals, the animal side of humans...