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...happened in a week. First day out from Cherbourg, Olivia was bored at the prospect of another comfortable winter in Chicago with her middle-aged husband Harry. She was nearly 40 herself. Suddenly Olivia discovered that Nick, her first husband, was a fellow-passenger. They had not met for ten years, since the divorce. Now Nick was a famous author. Olivia had two more children. They were glad to see each other, got dangerously excited talking over old times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: First Mates Meeting | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

Nick, unlike Harry, was a thrilling person to be with-Olivia had forgotten how thrilling. She forgot the embarrassment of the situation, began to believe she was in love again. By the time the boat reached Manhattan Nick had almost convinced her; and she had allowed herself to kiss him. When she further allowed herself, the first night ashore, to meet him at their old trysting place in Gramercy Park, Nick persuaded her to leave Harry and run away with him. But by the time they reached his Vermont farm Olivia had had time and occasion to remember what life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: First Mates Meeting | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

Today, tomorrow, and Wednesday, the Cambridge School of the Drama will give its second play this year. "Wedlock", a comedy by Olivia Hobgood, a student at the School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF DRAMA GIVES "WEDLOCK" | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...minor refinements salubriously included in this production was a softening of the very sudden affection of Sebastian for the lovely Olivia. The picture of Olivia given to Viola is left upon a bench by that dissembling young lady from whence it is picked up by Sebastian and immediately the beauty of that lady (Olivia) arouses obvious amorous feelings. After this display of sighs and the attending languishing looks, what follows does not seem quite so impossible...

Author: By H. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 9/26/1930 | See Source »

...Vagabond, erudite gentleman that he is, forthwith abandoned his quest. Not so. Instead he made a valiant effort to get in the mood for these mental hazzards. For instance, he very adroitly hung in the wings while Miss Jane Cowl waved her hands and wrists about the zenith as Olivia in "Twelfth Night" which is occupying the foot-lights at the Wilbur (current advertising in this column is 90 cents per inch). That disposed of the Bard. As for Monsieur Homer (even if the nomenclature is a mixed metaphor) he perched over a super-hetrodyne for the Sharkey-Campolo affair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 9/26/1930 | See Source »

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