Word: mcmath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss McMath. Ginger Rogers was born in Independence, Mo. on July 16, 1911, just about the time Irene Castle was starting her U. S. career. Before Ginger was born, her mother, Mrs. Lela Emogene Owens McMath, took to visiting art galleries and other prenatal pastures. She did this because she was convinced that she was about to bestow something unusual on the world, and while not sure of the effects of prenatal influences, she did not wish to miss any bets. Mrs. McMath's premonitions were confirmed. As soon as she had given birth to her daughter, she visited...
Ginger Rogers was named Virginia Katherine McMath. Shortly after her birth, her mother separated from her electrical engineer husband, Eddins McMath, and, taking small Ginger, went to Kansas City, where she got a $9-a-week job as typist in Montgomery Ward. Thereafter Ginger's childhood was nomadic. Jobs took her mother all over the country but always nearer the movies. In 1919, Mrs. McMath, by this time divorced, married a Dallas insurance man named John Rogers. In 1922 the family moved to Fort Worth...
Pert, red-haired Ginger Rogers (Virginia McMath ), 23, has been dancing nimbly and singing huskily since she won a Charleston contest in Texas at 16. In vaudeville she called herself "The Original John Held Jr. Girl" although she had never met or posed for that artist. Playing on Broadway in Top Speed and Girl Crazy, she got a cinema contract because Hollywood liked the way she kept repeating "Cigaret me, big boy!" in Young Man of Manhattan. She plays expert ping-pong, likes to speak pig-Latin, dislikes exhibiting her feet. We're Not Dressing (Paramount). This picture...
...Associated Press called to mind that in 18 notorious kidnapping cases in the past three years, 43 criminals have been jailed, three are dead, ten await trial. Prior to last week, the four most important kidnappees of the year were Broker Charles Boettcher II of Denver, little Peggy McMath of Cape Cod. Mary McElroy, daughter of Kansas City's city manager, and Brewer William Hamm of St. Paul. The abductors of all save Hamm are either doing time or awaiting trial. On the basis of that record the average kidnap victim not only stands a good chance of getting...
...constitutionality of the Ohio corporation code under which the merger was ratified. The $800,000 loan by Bethlehem to Cleveland's Pickands, Mather & Co. for the purpose of buying Youngstown stock, which has been the King Charles's head of the suit, inevitably came up. R. E. McMath, Bethlehem secretary, when asked whether Partner Elton Hoyt II of Pickands, Mather had told him the money was needed to buy Youngstown stock, replied: "No, but I think he knew that I knew what he thought and for that purpose he needed the money...