Word: martha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arrested for imitating trumpet-voiced Songstress Martha Raye at Brooklyn's Manhattan Beach Baths, where she had a permit to act but not to sing, little Audrey Golub. 9, pleaded that she just "couldn't resist it" when she heard the applause...
...Married. Martha Eccles Dodd Roberts, 26), daughter of onetime anti-Nazi U. S. Ambassador to Germany William Edward Dodd; and Alfred Kaufman Stern. 40, Manhattan housing expert; both for the second time; in Round Hill...
Give Me a Sailor (Paramount). Martha Raye, Bob Hope and Betty Grable in a Cinderella comedy chiefly notable because it suggests that Miss Raye's employers have begun to doubt whether the entertainment possibilities of her adenoids are inexhaustible...
First of them to break away was the mask-faced zealot, Martha Graham, who left a lucrative job with the then-popular Ruth St. Denis company to brood and prance alone in a Manhattan studio. Results of this brooding, Graham's Manhattan concerts in 1926-29, were the first doses of modernist dance Manhattanites had ever taken. Soon, however, two other former Denishawn dancers, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, joined the procession. When famed German Modernist Dancer Mary Wigman visited the U. S. in 1930-31, the U. S. home-grown modernist dance had already taken root. But Wigman...
Tropic Holiday (Paramount): standard slapstick musical comedy exhibiting Martha Raye and Bob Burns against a Mexican background and Dorothy Lamour, who wore a sarong in Her Jungle Love, Hurricane, wearing a serape...