Word: spinster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Manhattan's eccentric spinster Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel died in 1931, she left to five charitable institutions the bulk of the $36,000,000 fortune which old John Gottlieb Wendel had founded in the fur trade and grounded in Manhattan. To small Drew University of Madison, N. J. fell the lamed Wendel mansion on 39th Street and Fifth Avenue, with a high-fenced side yard which was maintained exclusively for Spinster Wendel's toothless, asthmatic poodle Tobey. Last week it was learned that Drew University had leased the site of the Wendel mansion for a long term...
...deliver a baby. After birth the baby was stowed away in the house attic for several weeks, later smuggled out of the house, given to a family named Morris. The father of the baby, the affidavits alleged, was John G. Wendel; its mother John G. Wendel's spinster sister, Mary...
...Paramount), one of last year's stage hits, is a macabre melodrama of a woman's greed. Like the famed Wendel family, the Van Bretts owe their fortune in Manhattan real estate to a simple maxim: "Never sell." Head of the gloomy house of Van Brett is Spinster Victoria (Mary Morris), a malevolent despot who rules the others with a rod of gold. When her half-brother (Kent Taylor) marries a hospital nurse (Evelyn Venable), Victoria determines that this "upper servant" shall never touch Van Brett money...
...Author, young (28), Manhattan-born, went to an Ethical Culture school, Swarthmore College and the Columbia School of Journalism, then did publicity work and odd jobs on Manhattan newspapers. She has traveled widely in Europe, is still a spinster. At present she is teaching something called "creative writing" at a girls' school (Briarcliff Manor...
...disturbance is cool, assured Mariella (Gladys Cooper) who has married one of the brothers. She responds with rudeness to the spinster sister's rudeness, with love to the love of David (Raymond Massey), the eldest brother. Mariella's husband is smug and blind, but David's wife Judy (Adrianne Allen) sees clearly. Because she likes Mariella, because she loves David and is grateful to him for marrying her, Judy steps under the falling side of a burning barn. Almost mad with resentment, grief and frustration, David strikes crashing discords on the piano, breaks plates. It is Mariella...