Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lady Who Came To Stay (by Kenneth White, based on a novel by R. E. Spencer, produced by Guthrie Mc-Clintic) relates the dreadful events in "the upstairs sitting room of the Garvis home," a ponderous, gloomy Victorian chamber. Here three weird maiden sisters -one of them an unspeakable witch in a bathrobe-live in apparently acute sex frustration with their widowed, musical sister-in-law and her daughter. Finally the last of the weirds, afraid of becoming more so, decides to burn the house down...
...maiden exhibition, this week, the Modern Museum's new photography department dusted off 60 pictures representing the heavy cream of camera craft, from early sepia-colored 19th-Century primitives down to such contemporary camerartists as Alfred Stieglitz. Ansel Adams, Edward Weston. Picked to show the tremendous variety of methods and subjects used by cameramen of the past 97 years, the exhibition contained prints from hoary calotype* and wet-plate negatives, documentaries by the Civil War's camerace Matthew Brady, sentimental Victorian landscapes, modern news photographs, dadaist shadowgraphs by Hungarian-born Moholy-Nagy and U. S. Modernist...
Joseph B. McGrath '44 of Maiden is the chairman of the dance committee, and Brooks M. Heath '44 of Auburndale and Andrew W. Murphy '48 are members...
Died. Henry Horner, 61, Governor of Illinois; of nephritis, after long sickness; in Winnetka, Ill. Chicago-born son of one Solomon A. Levy, he was four when his parents separated; he and his mother took her maiden name. After 18 years' judgeship in Cook County Probate Court, he ran for Governor in 1932, sponsored by the late Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak, whose subsequent assassination left Horner politically free. Governor ever since, he agreed with the Kelly-Nash machine only on Term III. A bachelor, he found time to become an authority on Lincoln...
Rubber Reserve Co., created last month by RFC, has the job of buying a 100,000-to-150,000-ton defense stockpile of rubber before Christmas at 18? to 20? a lb. Last week Rubber Reserve Co. made its maiden venture into the tough and jumpy spot-rubber market. The price moved forward to 20? and R. R. C., squealing, withdrew...