Word: rosamond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago, on Emancipation Day, a large group of Negro celebrities gathered at this forlorn spot, listened to a flowery oration by Publisher Cooke, then paraded past the grave, dropping gladioli and singing "Carry me back. . . ." Among the singers: famed Negro Blues Composer William Christopher Handy, Composer J. Rosamond (brother of James Weldon) Johnson. Meanwhile spontaneous contributions for a James Bland Memorial began to pile up in Publisher Cooke's Philadelphia office. It looked as if James Bland's grave might soon have something better on it than poison...
...Died. Rosamond Pinchot Gaston, 32, tall, handsome actress (the nun in Max Reinhardt's Miracle, 1924), niece of Pennsylvania's onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot; of carbon monoxide poisoning; in a garage at her Old Brookville, L. I. home...
...wandering Bostonians, was scarcely more anonymous than the cast. The White Mountain State has numerous similar organizations to divert vacationists from the cinema, such as the New London Players, Tarn worth's Barnstormers and the Keene Summer Theatre, which will present The Sap next week with Rosamond Castle Page in the leading role. Miss Page says she is John Wilkes Booth's great-granddaughter. Over the border in Vermont, the Brattleboro Theatre, on whose board sit Constance Morrow Morgan (see p. 56) and Thornton Wilder, begins its season late in July. The Front Page and The Sea Gull...
Most first-nighters were of the opinion that production honors were even between Designer Bel Geddes, for the magic of his lighting and setting, and Director Reinhardt, for his skill in effectively sweeping the great crowds and actors over the vast stage. Sam Jaffe as the eternal Jewish cynic, Rosamond Pinchot as Bathsheba, Catherine Carrington as Ruth made themselves recognizable among the mobs of fellow-actors. Heard of but not recognized by many was pretty Florence Meyer, Backer Meyer's daughter, as an Egyptian princess, a fiend, a depraved woman...
...WEATHER IN THE STREETS-Rosamond Lehmann-Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.50). The author of Dusty Answer, Invitation to the Waltz follows a too-familiar modern pattern. Olivia leaves her literary husband, slips into a love affair with the Prince Charming of her girlhood, finds out he is not worth the trouble he makes...