Word: margarets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ECHO?Margaret Rivers Larminie ?Putnam ($2.00). Well written revamping of the same old triangle, and the problem as to whether a single miscue should ruin a woman's career. For some reason takes its place with the horde of "competent" novels of the present?neither good enough to shout about or bad enough to damn?capable workmanship in evidence throughout, but the product tastes lukewarm...
...Abernathy; Kansas City; Mrs. Cyrus H. K. Curtis, Philadelphia; Mrs. Harvey Norman, Washington; Mrs. W. L. Walter, Mrs. W. L. Rice, Miss Rice, New York; Miss Sylvia Lathrop, England, formerly of New York; Miss Rebecca Smith, Mrs. E. T. Sweeney, Columbus, Ind.; Miss Elsie Sweeney, Miss Elaine Ulman, Miss Margaret Emmett, Miss Lennihan. (The home addresses of the last four were not made public...
...incompleteness. Women have made their marks in all branches of science, and to limit their professions to anatomy or astronomy is arbitrary. There are 404 of them among the 9,500 names in American Men of Science. The League might well have mentioned, for instance, Margaret F. Washburn (president of the American Psychological Association, 1922), Lillien J. Martin, Mary W. Calkins, Ethel Puffer Howes, Christine Ladd-Franklin or Helen B. Woolley, psychologists; Florence Bascom, geologist; Alice C. Fletcher (who died last month) or Elsie Clews Parsons, anthropologists; Cornelia Clapp, Katharine Foot or Mary J. Rathbun, zoologists; Lydia DeWitt or Louise...
...passed by the British censor of plays for future production in England-all but one little word. The word is "bloody." You can write it, but you can't speak it-at least according to the censor. Another well-known novel will appear in a stage version when Margaret Anglin opens in San Francisco this June with The Great Lady Dedlock (adapted from Dickens' Bleak House) by Paul Kester. Mr. Kester is said to have worked four years on the play. With the decline of the New York theatrical season has come an increase...
After much competition Miss Margaret Sheridan was selected to create the prima donna role of Candida in Respighi's new opera, Belfagor, which is to be produced in a month at the La Scala house in Milan, Toscanini conducting. Some four years ago Miss Sheridan appeared in Covent Garden, London...