Word: sonia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Married. Sonia Alexandra Frey, daughter of John Alexander Frey, Director of the Baptist Theological Seminary of Riga, Latvia, to Niven Busch, Jr., onetime associate editor of TIME, in Manhattan...
...writes about his superman less pompously than did H. G. Wells, less seriously than did John Galsworthy, less romantically than did Michael Arlen, more rapidly than did W. L. George. Youthful and prolific, Author McKenna knows his subject at first hand; through the War and until two years after Sonia, in 1917, brought him bows and plaudits, he served the British government in diplomatic or other capacities...
Born. To Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Anton Stanislaw Stokowski, a daughter; in Manhattan. Mr. Stokowski, famed Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra conductor, married (TIME, Jan. 25, 1926) Miss Evangeline Brewster Johnson, daughter of a founder of Johnson & Johnson, famed medicinal chemical firm. He has one daughter, Sonia, by his previous wife, Pianist Olga Samaroff, now New York Evening Post musical critic, from whom he was divorced...
...Cousin Sonia. Marguerita Sylva has done a variety of things behind the footlights. She is probably best known for her intermittent activities with various opera companies, including the Metropolitan. She turns to straight acting every now and then. She happens to have turned to it now in a conventional farce from France, in which there are husbands and lovers, politeness and indiscretion, wit and a song or two for Mme. Sylva. She plays a bustling relative who hurtles in and carries off the lover for herself. All mildly amusing...
...Author. Stephen McKenna is an English bachelor, a graduate of Oxford. He has traveled a great deal, and was in the Intelligence Section, War Trade Intelligence Department, during the War. He was a member of the Balfour Mission to the U. S., 1917. His best-known works are Sonia, Sonia Married, Midas and Son, The Secret Victory...