Word: performance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York State law, Mr. & Mrs. Obadie had still to go through a ceremony according to the gentle tenets of their religion -Baha'i. This loosely organized faith, to which some 5,000 U. S. believers adhere, has no priesthood, is not recognized by civil law as qualified to perform marriages. Nonetheless Mr. & Mrs. Obadie asked a friend to read them the Baha'i service. He was Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Persian poet and a U. S. Baha'i leader. Two nights later they met for the ceremony with friends at the home of Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, onetime...
...ought to know also that Professor Warren is Ivar Kreuger in disguise. Just a simple matter of skin grafting which any beauty surgeon could perform. How Ivar laughs these days in Washington to think people believe he is dead...
...conventional steps, only more of them. The piano accompaniment was too thin to be noticed. Only hint of propaganda was the red cap and the tri-colored cockade sup posed to suggest "The Flame of Paris." None of the dances had meaning outside of the energy it took to perform them...
This aspect of genetics was notably presented for court action a year ago in New Haven where a justice of the peace permitted Dr. Alexander S. Wiener, Brooklyn blood specialist, to perform the blood test. This test is the issue of the blood classifications which Dr. Karl Landsteiner of the Rockefeller Institute discovered when he was a young researcher in Vienna 30 years ago. There are four main classes of human blood (O, A, B and AB). If, for example, a woman whose blood was of type A had a child by a man of type A, the child...
Daughter of a well-to-do Hartford physician, Katharine Hepburn was a member of the Class of 1929 at Bryn Mawr, prefaced her one important Broadway performance in The Warrior's Husband with four small parts and several unproductive engagements as understudy. Since becoming a celebrity, she has fiercely fought to distinguish between her private and her professional life. Of her education, she says: "I never went to Bryn Mawr-that was another Katharine Hepburn." Of her husband. Insurance Broker Ludlow Ogden Smith, whom she married Dec. 12, 1928 and with whom she lives in Manhattan...