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...fine figure of a woman, she has inherited profound theatrical abilities from her father, venerable and gifted Otis Skinner, and her mother, onetime Shakespearean Actress Maud Durbin. Last week Miss Skinner presented in Manhattan her first full-length (1 hr.; six scenes) production with a U. S. scene...
...Author is a descendant of Rabbi Gershom Seixas, who came to America in 1710 and helped incorporate Columbia College, a nephew of Maud Nathan, founder of The Consumers' League, and of Annie Nathan Meyer, founder of Barnard College. But as a Jew, Robert Nathan found things difficult at Exeter and at Harvard. His ancestry supposedly kept him from being president of the Harvard Monthly. As a poet he found the "good bourgeois Jews themselves" against him because he was "a bad business risk." Fear of what the "good bourgeois Jews" might say has made Mr. Nathan sensitive about...
First ten women players chosen were Helen Jacobs, Sarah Palfrey Fabyan Carolin Babcock, Dorothy Andrus. Baroness Maud Levi. Jane Sharp. Marjorie Morrill Painter, Mary Greef Harris, Marjorie Sachs, Catherine Wolf...
...Anne of Green Gables (RKO) is a dramatization of the Lucy Maud Montgomery novel, published a quarter of a century ago, whose heroine Mark Twain called "the dearest and most moving and delightful child of fiction since the immortal Alice." An orphan from the orphanage, Anne Shirley finds herself unwanted when she turns up at the farm of Matthew (0. P. Heggie) and Marilla (Helen Westley), who had expected to adopt a boy. Her ready smile and winning impudence soon earn her the affection of her foster-parents and all goes well until she falls in love with Gilbert...
Married. Cecil Calvert Smith, 30, 10-goal member of the West polo team; and Mary Mulford Miller, 20. Long Island socialite; in Wading River, Long Island, N. Y. Married. Frank Aiken, Irish Free State Minister for Defense, "only bachelor in the de Valera Cabinet''; and Maud Davin, director of the Dublin Municipal School of Music; in Dublin...