Word: noah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Noah (by Andre Obey; Jerome Mayer, producer). Playwright Obey begins this naive fable with the First Navigator banging the last few nails into the Ark with his stone hammer. His dowdy beard hangs in ringlets. His hoary eyebrows are the size of mustaches. And a wild mop of grey hair tops the benign face of an Irish comedian. Neither the tippler of legend nor the inflexible patriarch of the Bible, Noah's Noah is the simplest of men, worried about his mission but uncomfortably embarrassed each time he has to bother God for further instructions. Full of faith...
...near-mutiny is averted only by the sun's timely appearance. "This," proclaims Noah as the youngsters dance about him, "is the Golden Age. This is the FIRST DAY!" But darkling, doubtful Ham is not satisfied. What day is it, he wants to know. Is it Monday? Wednesday? Sunday? As close as he ever permits himself to come to impatience, Noah protests against this infernal nagging of him and God over trivial questions. Such inquisitiveness is bound to annoy the Creator. "You can't expect Him to be a saint, you know," he tells his only confidants...
...children, Peggy, the youngest, died when 4 years old. Stuart, 30, Yale '28, once "in Wall Street," now lives in Tucson, Ariz. (because of a sinus infection). Grant. 25, Princeton '31, is a Cornell Medical senior. In 1922 Mrs. Margaret Higgins Sanger married James Noah Henry Slee, onetime president of 3-in-1 Oil Co. They have a mansion at the edge of a lake near Fishkill, N. Y. Ordinarily she prefers to be called Margaret Sanger, the name which has become the symbol of Birth Control...
...Sanger outwitted Premier Mussolini of Italy, who treasures fecundity, by traveling as Mrs. J. Noah H. Slee. "Of course," she gleefully boasted soon as she was beyond his reach: "I did not get into Rome. But I managed to hold many private meetings on birth control. In Venice and Milan I had more demand for secret lectures before women's clubs than I could supply...
Late last Thanksgiving afternoon Mrs. St. Louis Estes gave birth to a girl in the large house near Los Angeles which Cinemactor Noah Beery used to own. Four hours later Mrs. Estes answered her telephone. Next day she was up & around the house. The second day she took her new baby motoring. Four days later she began to feed the infant the juice of raw vegetables. Last week, dressed in trousers and zipper shirt, she sat down on an iron lawn chair and posed for a picture with her 72-year-old husband and the ten children she has borne...