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...WEATHER IN THE STREETS-Rosamond Lehmann-Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.50). The author of Dusty Answer, Invitation to the Waltz follows a too-familiar modern pattern. Olivia leaves her literary husband, slips into a love affair with the Prince Charming of her girlhood, finds out he is not worth the trouble he makes...
...person Fremstad was as incalculable as a storybook diva. When she swept off stage she was as likely to embrace every one she passed as she was to wither them with a glance. Once she suddenly discovered that her name had 13 letters, forthwith had herself billed as Olivia Fremstad, changed back again to Olive when she realized that Richard Wagner had 13 letters in his name. She adopted the grand manner without reservation, kept a houseful of servants, a car and a chauffeur when that luxury was uncommon. In her grandiose moods it was nothing for her to spend...
...cumbrous mill with slave power. Peter Blood is promoted from the mill when he successfully treats the governor's gout, but he does not forget his wretched comrades. Meanwhile his insolence has earned the bitter hatred of Bishop and the affections of Bishop's niece Arabella (Olivia De Havilland...
Stating that she "would not be justified in accepting such an appropriation from the taxpayers' money," Mrs. Olivia Murray Cutting, rich mother of the late U. S. Senator Bronson Cutting, refused the customary $10,000 voted by the Senate to deceased Senators' next of kin. Senator Cutting left an estate of nearly...
Died. Mrs. Olivia Phelps James Hoe, 98, charitarian widow of Robert Hoe III, maker of Hoe newspaper presses; after brief illness; in Lake Placid...