Word: richards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...RICHARD M. DAVIS...
Several weeks ago, in your review of [TIME, March 21] Richard Eberhart's Reading the Spirit, you called this young, intelligent, deep-thinking poet a "ham." Everyone knows what a "ham" actor is, but it seems to me TIME has very vulgarly tried to coin a new word where there is no need...
...York, and it was only later discovered that she was the property of Mrs. Emily Roebling Cadwalader, Philadelphia socialite. The ship's incorporation was publicized last year when the U. S. Bureau of Internal Revenue objected to income tax deductions made by Mrs. Cadwalader and Husband Richard M. Cadwalader Jr. in their 1932 returns. It was then revealed that travel-loving Mrs. Cadwalader had sold to her attorney 400 ship shares at $100 apiece. Since the value of a share had been $1,717, Mrs. Cadwalader claimed capital losses of $647,124-a matter that will be threshed...
...gentle, snow-haired lady of 82 living in London, Franz Peter Schubert's grandniece talks easily of how, when a student, she heard Composer-Pianist Franz Liszt play in Budapest in 1870, heard Composer Richard Wagner conduct in Vienna in 1876. Fellow students with her were Conductor Artur Nikisch and Composer-Conductor Gustav Mahler (TIME, Feb. 7). She heard Russian Pianist Anton Rubinstein (Melody in F), Spanish Violinist Pablo de Sarasate (Zigeunerweisen), took piano lessons from Clara Schumann, gifted wife of Composer Robert Schumann...
Fomenting its trade in India, the ring brings disgrace and death to a British colonel. With a gushy American heiress (Loretta Young) tagging along, his four stout sons-Beano (George Sanders), Nosey (David Niven), Stinky (Richard Greene) and Snigglefritz (William Henry) -set out from ancestral Saint John-cum-Leigh (pronounced Sinjin-comely) to un-smirch the escutcheon. Guided by Director John Ford (The Informer, The Lost Patrol), their juvenile, helter-skelter quest roams two hemispheres, seldom loses its bearings. By thrusting Hollywood's dreamiest-eyed glamor girl smack up against a methodical machine-gunning of a screaming mass...