Word: russel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. John Francis Stanley, Earl Russel, 65, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for India, brother of Philosopher-Mathematician Bertrand Arthur William Russell (who succeeds to the title); of heart disease; in Marseilles. Grandson of Lord John Russell, Victorian Prime Minister, he was, like his brother, a scientist and Socialist. Once a Buddhist, later an agnostic, he married three times. He divorced his first wife, Mabel Scott, in Reno and immediately married Mollie Cooke, twice-divorced sister-in-law of the Bishop of Kilmore. Since his divorce was not valid in England he was charged with bigamy, tried in the House...
...Gang's All Here. Artist Russell Patterson designed the costumes, Oscar Hammerstein II helped the direction, Colyumist Russel Grouse wrote the book, Tilly Losch staged the ballet. The cast includes: luscious Gina Malo (Sons O' Guns); red-headed Zelma O'Neal (Good News); silly Ruth Tester (Second Little Show); the white-faced team of Shaw & Lee, droll Tom Howard and ingratiating Ted Healy. And seldom has wealth been more hopelessly, tastelessly squandered...
...year 1931 will be a period of greatly increased street and highway traffic. This is the opinion of Dr. Miller McClintock, director of the Albert Russel Erskine Bureau for Street Traffic Research in Harvard, expressed in his annual review of the traffic control problem...
...Author. Lorna Rea (Mrs. Philip Russel Rea) wrote "passionately romantic" short stories as a child. At Cambridge, England, she studied under "Q" (Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch); the War sidetracked her to medicine; marriage sidetracked that. When her husband was ordered to Switzerland for his health, she took her two children along, decided to start writing again. Her first book was Six Mrs. Greenes...
...Author. Russel Grouse, colyumist of Manhattan's Evening Post ("Left at the Post"), also writes for the New Yorker, once acted in a play (Gentlemen of the Press) by munching a ham sandwich, darting into a telephone booth. Caustic playgoers called the sandwich appropriate...