Word: missed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play, however good a background it gives Miss Cornell, does not however do justice to her and its success is due entirely to her interpretation. It is Miss Cornell alone that saves a slow moving and dull first act from being a complete failure. The action speeds up however and the last two acts do not let the interest lag a moment...
Margaret Ayer Barnes wrote the stage adaptation of Miss Wharton's best seller and she follows the original throughout with few exceptions. The story is the narrative of Countess Olenska's love affairs, both in Europe and in New York. As the play opens the Countess has just returned from Europe after a-shipwrecked first marriage. She settles down on Twenty-Third Street ready to take up again New York social life...
...night and sold his place for $5. One Edward Johnson of Decatur, Ill. sat on a camp stool in the street all night, bought a good $1 ticket, sat down again in the bleachers and slept through what he had come to see. Deputy Marshal McBride of Utica, Miss, had an argument with James H. Llewellyn at a filling station; Llewellyn drew a knife: McBride shot him dead. Reporter Tsunekawa of the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun and Reporter Saburo Suzuki of the Tokyo and Osaka Asahi sat among 105 telegraphers and sent stories by direct cable to Japan. In 15 Chicago...
When a girl starts to learn golf in England the professional who gives her her first lesson usually begins by showing her some photographs of Joyce Wethered. Putting, chipping, driving. Miss Wethered's supple shadow has thus come to dominate women's golf abroad and, to a large extent, in the U. S. Since Miss Wethered seldom bothers to play in tournaments any more, the British Women's National played without her last week at Broadstone was little more than a series of illustrations of how well or badly England's golfstresses had mastered their copybook...
...left all her Manhattan social arrangements in Manhattan to Miss Lillian D. Wald, directrix of Henry Street Settlement, was escorted to a dance by Princeton undergraduate Joseph Boyce, to a football game by studious Horace Anderson of Columbia...