Word: margarets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born. To Basil Dean, co-dramatist with Margaret Kennedy of The Constant Nymph (TIME, Dec. 20), and Mrs. Dean (onetime Lady Mercy Greville, daughter of the Dowager Countess of Warwick) ; a daughter (9 Ib.) in London. Playwright Dean cabled a wish she should be named Tessa, after the heroine of the play...
Engaged. Mrs. Margaret Ross Lansdowne, widow of Commander Zachary Lansdowne (killed in wreck of naval dirigible Shenandoah, Sept. 3, 1925); to one John Caswell Jr., cotton man of New York and Boston...
...Slogan: "Chicago jobs for Chicagoans." Mayor Dever mentioned "acquaintance with the local atmosphere" as desirable in the occupant of Dr. McAndrew's position. This phrase even the "home town's" loudest newspaper took to mean sympathy for politicians; respect for a federation of querulous teachers led by one Margaret Haley and a "not too sensitive, so to speak . . . olfactory nerve...
Novelists Margaret Deland and Mary Austin pleaded, Mrs. Deland in person, for further study of life after death. She told how she had been converted to spiritualism by the ouija board and the inexplicable "residue" left in mediumistic trances after all cheating had been subtracted. Mrs. Austin's faith resulted from her studies of primitive American Indian customs and the behavior of animals at the approach of death...
...Constant Nymph. Playwright Basil Dean had the help of Margaret Kennedy herself in adapting her remarkable novel but the play came out as an episode, never a legend. The footlights, scenery, players and theatre talk, excellent though they are, bury temperaments in personalities. Irony becomes friction. The one character reproduced adequately is old Sanger, who never comes on stage...