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Making her Broadway debut in Ladies in Retirement, tall, strong-featured, 38-year-old Actress Robson is known in the U. S. via Hollywood (Wuthering Heights, We Are Not Alone), One of England's leading serious actresses, she has played older parts since youth, has probably depicted as many...
It was the fourth year the Ice Follies had come to Broadway. The show was started on a shoestring by Eddie Shipstad & Oscar Johnson (a pair of St. Paul skaters who first got into the business 13 years ago when they were hired to do a comic Bowery skit at...
Year before World War I got going, tall, dignified Albert V. Moore, socialite, and squat, jib-nosed Emmet J. McCormack, ex-tugboat captain, tossed $5,000 into the pot and founded the shipping firm of Moore & McCormack (now Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc.). Two years later the shoestring firm bought its...
Marquette was organized little more than a year ago, by another executive with an airline pilot's ticket in his pocket: convivial, pianoplaying, 33-year-old Winston Weidner Kratz. He ran it on a shoestring for months with outdated Stinson tri-motors. The line was a natural. From a...
Prime mover of the National Ceramic Exhibition is tall, energetic, sparkling-eyed Anna Wetherill Olmsted, director of the Syracuse museum. She started the show in 1932 as a memorial to Syracuse's ate gifted Adelaide Alsop Robineau, pioneer U. S. ceramist. On a shoestring budget Miss Olmsted has brought...