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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Atrocity of the Week. In captured Bilbao, the Irish Free State Minister to Spain, Mr. L. H. Kerney, reported after minute investigation the assassination by Anarchists, before they evacuated Bilbao, of Miss Bridget Boland, 56. an Irish governess employed for the past 37 years by a Spanish family...
...anonymous than the cast. The White Mountain State has numerous similar organizations to divert vacationists from the cinema, such as the New London Players, Tarn worth's Barnstormers and the Keene Summer Theatre, which will present The Sap next week with Rosamond Castle Page in the leading role. Miss Page says she is John Wilkes Booth's great-granddaughter. Over the border in Vermont, the Brattleboro Theatre, on whose board sit Constance Morrow Morgan (see p. 56) and Thornton Wilder, begins its season late in July. The Front Page and The Sea Gull will be featured. Burlington...
...Stockbridge this summer opened this week with experienced little Helen Ford (No Other Girl, Dearest Enemy, Peggy-Ann) in the title role of Director William Miles's new adaptation of Sacha Guitry's and Oscar Straus's musical, Mariette. Mr. Miles expected heavy attendance from Miss Ford's nearby hometown of Troy...
...years ago, returning on the lie de-France, Miss Elizabeth Ann Ahearn, 68, a devout school principal of Danvers, Mass. who had been six times received by the Pope, died of a stroke while in her bathtub. She had been sleeping daily until noon because of poor health and her death was not discovered for some 14 hours. Ship's doctors found it inadvisable to embalm the body and the captain called upon Catholic priests aboard to officiate at a sea burial. Subsequently four cousins sued the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (French Line) for $100,000 for their mental anguish...
White told this story in the summer of 1935 to Miss Ellen Ansley, Howard College correspondent of the Scripps-Howard Birmingham Post. Another reporter was assigned to interview White and the Post published a story saying, "although Mr. White will not take responsibility of selecting Sheik Imam's wife, he will be glad to make contact with the Arabian for those interested. Mr. White can be reached by telephone at 9-1817 or by mail at Roebuck Springs...