Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assorted college presidents, a Columbia, S. C. lawyer, two minor judges, a C. I. O. organizer, an A. F. of L. delegate, Publisher Barry Bingham of the Louisville Courier-Journal, a representative of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union. Southern business was represented by a lumber man from Picayune, Miss., a Birmingham banker, an aviation-company official from Dallas, a Virginia utility man, a Ken tucky varnish maker, and President J. Skottowe Wannamaker of the American Cotton Association...
...Monty Banks and a heterogeneous cast of minor actors have imparted energy, humor and color to a riotous flow of incident. We're Going to be Rich, however, is made really tops by the superb assurance-acquired before innumerable real audiences in London and provincial theatres-with which Miss Fields does her specialties. High point of the picture: the Fields rendering of a Boer folk song, Vat Jon Goed en Trek, Ferreira (Pack Up and Go, Ferreira), as a request number in a Johannesburg dive...
Fortnight ago luscious Cinemactress Paulette Goddard, said to be at odds with her longtime companion, Charlie Chaplin, turned up to visit him at Pebble Beach, Calif., where the grey-haired little comedian has his summer house. One day last week Miss Goddard went out to play golf at the Cyprus Point Club. There she registered as "Mrs. Charlie Chaplin." While Hollywood wondered whether this at last was tacit admission of what Holly wood had long tacitly taken to be fact-that Paulette Goddard is and has been for several years Charlie Chaplin's third wife*-the talkative cinemactor once...
...Babs" Hutton made tabloid headlines last week (see p. 16) the genus U. S. Society Girl made another kind of copy. At University of Chicago, sober, 25-year-old Mary Elaine Ogden, no Social Registerite, submitted a learned master's thesis: The Social Orientation of the Society Girl. Miss Ogden, who lives in Waterbury, Conn., made a laborious investigation of how the Society Girl is educated and with what results. Her report is almost as belittling as the magazine confessions of a deb gone commercial...
...Miss Ogden says the steps in the Society Girl's education (and the criteria of whether she is a Society Girl) are: 1) finishing school, 2) debut, 3) the Junior League. To Miss Ogden the debut is "a romantic escape from problems." Junior League charitable work, she finds, is a well-intentioned, noblesse oblige gesture that "serves as a convenient justification of the existence of the elite" but waters the roots of neither the poor nor the Society Girl...