Word: mabel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mabel, probably the most difficult role that Sullivan ever wrote, was sung imperfectly by Helen Roberts, but it would be difficult to imagine anyone acting a winsome part more winsomely. In the somewhat lesser role of Edith, Denise Findley gave by far the best female performance. The sets were as usual wonderful, and the conducting of Isadore Godfrey was for the most part an improvement on the D'Oyly Carte recording. His original use of the accompanying bass and of the French horns was one of the many surprises of the evening. Among other pleasures were the singing...
Remedy. In Houston, lucky Mabel Boling finally got rid of her case of hiccups in a three-way auto smashup and explosion...
...terror started in October with the kidnaping of a young girl. She told police that half a dozen Negroes had raped her at knifepoint. About three weeks later, 68-year-old Mrs. Mabel Merrifield, clubwoman and wife of a former assistant attorney general of Indiana, was murdered in her suburban home. Her throat had been ripped open with a butcher knife. Her killing is still unsolved. Next, a cab driver was beaten to death. Five Negroes, who claimed he took 15? too much from them, will be tried for the murder...
From Rome to Home. During World War I Sterne returned to the U.S., married the much-marrying Mabel Dodge and took her to Taos, New Mexico. Mabel divorced Sterne to marry Pueblo Indian Tony Luhan (TIME, May 5). To Mabel, Sterne "seemed old and spent and tragic, while Tony was whole and young in the cells of his body." Sterne was not too spent to get married a second time, to Vera Segal, a honey-haired follower of Dancer Isadora Duncan...
...Mabel Dodge Luhan, veteran salon-keeper and genius-collector, strangely silent after years of holding nothing back in volume after volume of Intimate Memories, was merely busy writing about her neighbors again. Out next fortnight: Taos and Its Artists. Four-times-married Mrs. Luhan, 68, still married to Pueblo Indian Tony after 24 years, talked to a reporter about domesticity and the Gadget Age. Marriage? "I have not analyzed it much for the last 30 years, but it is wonderful. It is a pleasure." Modern times? "If more machinery would break down, sort of gradually, we would all be better...