Word: poetesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, 71, sister of the late President, mother of onetime (1924-29) Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson, relict of Manhattan Realtor Douglas Robinson; of pleural pneumonia; in Manhattan. Poetess (The Call of Brotherhood, Out of Nymph), politician, in the 1932 campaign she supported local Republican candidates but not President Hoover because "my own beloved niece is the wife of the Democratic candidate...
Died. Sara Teasdale Filsinger, 48, U. S. poetess of nostalgia, Pulitzer prize-winner (1918); by drowning in her bathtub, following pneumonia, a nervous breakdown, a debate with her nurse on suicide technique; in Manhattan. Divorced in 1929 from Ernst B. Filsinger, foreign trade expert, onetime vice president of Royal Baking Powder Co., her prize-winning Love Songs included the stanza...
Died. Edwin Pond Parker II, 39, one-time husband of Manhattan Poetess Dorothy Rothschild Parker; of an overdose of sleeping potion to deaden toothache; in Hartford. Conn...
Married. Helen Choate, 26, Manhattan poetess, socialite, granddaughter of the late U. S. Ambassador to England Joseph Hodges Choate; and Geoffrey Platt, 27, architect son of Architect Charles Adams Platt; in Manhattan...
Phase 3 of Katharine Cornell's theatrical life began last year when she produced with her husband The Barretts of Wimpole Street. Her portrayal of the invalid poetess was the season's sensation. There are figures to prove it. When she withdrew the Manhattan production to take it on the road it was still doing $20,000 worth of business a week. She grossed $33,000 in Philadelphia during Holy Week. Ten thousand folk were turned away from a benefit performance in Chicago. When the tour ended in San Francisco, The Barretts had taken...