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...class with two minor characters. One of these, Maggie, played by Beulah Bondi, in the role of the servant who has been with the family so long that she has become, not a servant, but a retainer, fairly runs away with the show. The other, Frank Owens, nee Fleming Ward, adds the other true touch by playing the victim in the fight scene an inevitable scene in Grant Mitchell's procrustean and as such reappearing on the stage to explain how it all happened, at the same time spraying the footlights with loosened teeth...
...mile from the Shakespeare Cliffs at Dover. At 3:10 p. m. the daughter of the Vikings stumbled on the sands of Dover beach, collapsed. She was the first mother to swim the English Channel. Her time was an hour slower than Gertrude Ederle's. Mrs. Corson (nee Amelia Gade) revived, told the crowd around her: "I was determined to make it or go down. I have to make some money for my kids...
...entitled to consider the Judge's general course of conduct (not merely this or that separate offense). On these two grounds, it was clear impeachment would be voted. Congressmen trooped to their seats, the amazing number of 400 being present. The galleries were packed. Speaker Longworth's wife*nee Roosevelt?was there. The time for voting came. Opponents of impeachment, their battle lost, tried to delay matters. Hot-headed Representative John E. Rankin of Mississippi asked for a useless roll-call. Irritated, the usually suave, immaculate Ogden Mills walked across to Mr. Rankin, pointed out that a delay would prevent...
...Person in Pink" is certainly in the latter class, lending itself at best in no very definite way either to acting or to production--for Hyde Park is not the easiest spot for the Copley to orient to its red asbestos curtain--nor is Lady Tonbridge's Charleston arena, nee home. The only thing it really adopts itself to is Mr. Mowbray's smile that was quite satisfying. Yet the best of smiles cannot cure the pain of the last lines. Those remain forever--shouted in the pseudo-alcoholic accents of Miss Ediss--"It's the will...
Married. Queena Mario (nee Tillotson, near Akron, Ohio) noted chanteuse of Manhattan's famed Metropolitan Opera Company; to Wilfrid Pelletier, orchestral director of the Metropolitan; at Winnetka...