Word: novas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Benjamin Rand '79, librarian in the Harvard Philosophical Library until his retirement in 1932, died last night at the home of his brother, Fenwick Rand, in Canning, Kings County, Nova Scotia, where he was born 79 years...
James Ramsay MacDonald is never so happy as when burring out sonorous periods on the subject of his great specialty "the Peace of the Wor-r-rld." Last week the silver-haired Scot, fresh from his summer's rustication in Nova Scotia, was busily ensconced at No. 10 Downing St. with experts of the British Admiralty. They had hoped he would take things easy and let the Admiralty dictate to Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon what course the Empire shall steer at the 1935 Naval Conference. Instead the Prime Minister assumed full charge last week, letting it be known...
Felicity Hughes (Nova Pilbeam) is a thoughtful, slightly neurotic little girl who senses, without defining, the presence of something appallingly ugly in the relations between her father and mother. She learns enough to perceive that Frank Hilliard, an actor whom her mother admires, is somehow responsible. This knowledge merely makes the situation more puzzling than ever. Her only ally is a cockney confectioner's boy in whose cellar she hides after she has gone to Hilliard's apartment one evening and seen her mother's coat thrown down across a sofa. It is the confectioner...
When the London Evening Standard ran a contest this autumn to discover a better name for Nova Pilbeam, some of the answers were Beryl Beamstar, Nova Cinemata, June, Dawn, and Marina Pilbeam. She decided to retain her own name, which she considers less whimsical than Myrna Loy or Greta Garbo. Her father is Arnold Pilbeam, for the last 15 years stage manager for the late Sir Nigel Playfair...
...Nova is a compliment to her maternal grandmother, who came from Nova Scotia. By far the most famed child actress in England, Nova Pilbeam is by no means a British Shirley Temple. Now 14, small for her age, she made her stage debut at 5, in an amateur children's fantasy, started to act professionally...