Word: owens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hold Your Horses (libretto by Russel Grouse & Corey Ford; music & lyrics by Russell Bennett, Robert A. Simon, Owen Murphy). ''The locale of this comedy is New York City at the turn of the Century," says a program note by Messrs. Grouse & Ford. "If any member of the audience can detect the slightest error in atmosphere or historical data, the authors would be greatly obliged if he would please keep his mouth shut about it." It would be more to the point if Author Grouse (It Seems Like Yesterday, Mr. Currier & Mr. Ives) and Funnyman Ford should defy their...
Married, Katherine Duchatel Johnson Kugeman, daughter of Author Owen McMahon Johnson, granddaughter of onetime U. S. Ambassador to Italy Robert Underwood Johnson; and C. Sterling Bunnell, Manhattan banker, onetime (1921-24) Yale footballer; in Budapest...
...Flirtatious Lily had never gone further than high school lessons in elocution, consequently enjoyed a fixed conviction that she was destined for high success on the New York stage. Her conviction is stubbornly shared by her down-at-heel family and by Mrs. Gilbert, a family friend whose son Owen is a playwright. When Owen returns home on vacation before the rehearsals of his new play, his mother tries to get him to give Lily a part. Lily suggests that he rewrite the play to do so. Eventually, in spite of Owen's passive obstruction, she manages...
Voltaire (Warner) is an historical picture in the grand manner, with powdered wigs, conversations behind curtains, a package of letters from the King of Prussia and George Arliss in unbecoming knee breeches. Count de Sarnac (Alan Mowbray) is the greedy Minister of Finance to Louis XV (Reginald Owen). Because Voltaire (George Arliss) writes tracts denouncing his heavy taxes, the Count tries to bring him into disfavor with the King- unsuccessfully because the King enjoys Voltaire's conversation and Mme Pompadour (Doris Kenyon) finds him entertaining...
...officers hurled tear-gas bombs, clubbed the farmers. Just outside Boonville three trucks carrying 285 cans of milk were stopped by strikers and the milk poured onto the ground. At Van Hornesville, 50 mi. from Boonville, the pickets seized and dumped three cans of milk from the farm of Owen D. Young. Next day the strike spread into southern and western New York where 10,000 dairy farmers, including members of the potent Rutland Co-operative Association, withheld deliveries. Alarmed, the Milk Board promised to alter its regulations, announced that, if necessary, the State would go outside its present "milkshed...