Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edna at crucial stages of her life, she impersonates seven other characters besides. Broadly caricatured and really funny is her dowager Dolly McElroy, millionaire wife of a Chicago meat packer, who welcomes Edna's husband into pre-War society among potted palms and ottomans. As Edna's sister on the deck of the doomed excursion boat, Eastland, Miss Skinner is at her best. Although the only stage effect is a swaying rail for her to clutch, she projects the full horror of the sinking ship. Later, as a sculptress who is Edna's husband's mistress...
Education's Thorndike. The record of the Thorndike family confirms his own emphasis on the importance of heredity. His late brother Ashley was one of the foremost U. S. Shakespearean scholars. Another brother, Lynn, is an authority on medieval history, his sister (now retired) was a brilliant high-school teacher. Of his four children, three are college teachers and the fourth an undergraduate, all unusual scholars...
...completed ship the Allies took, handing her proudly over to Britain's White Star Line which ran her for years as the Homeric. Last year she was broken up for scrap. Meantime work was again started on her weathering sister ship on the keel site of 1914. In 1922, two years after Danzig became a Free City, the graceful beauty was launched, christened the Columbus. Until the advent of the Bremen and Europa seven years later she was Germany's largest ship, crack vessel of its mercantile marine; then the Columbus fell into third place. Re-turbined...
...sends Fred Astaire dancing into a foggy English countryside to rescue fair-haired, big-featured Joan Fontaine from the errant vagaries of a typical P. G. Wodehouse story. Not so lissome a heroine as light-footed Ginger Rogers (temporarily otherwise engaged), inexperienced Actress Fontaine (Olivia de Havilland's sister) goes gamely but somewhat lumberingly through the curvets and caracoles required of her. Far more facile as an Astaire partner is, of all people, rumpish Radio Dunce Gracie Allen, who with her harassed husband, George Burns, makes up the Astaire party...
...Brooklyn Museum, Poet Lincoln Kirstein, Choreographer Leon Leonidoff, Connoisseur Julien Levy, Designer Donald Oenslager, Publisher W. W. Norton, Critic John Martin, Radioman David Sarnoff. Patrons Edward M. M. Warburg and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt. Third in command was Miss Anne Morgan, J. P. Morgan's impressive sister and Sculptor Hoffman's longtime friend. With this backing,.Dance International steamed ahead to hold a competition among U. S. painters and sculptors, supplementing European and Oriental objects of art already contracted...