Word: sylvia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Alexander Johnston Robertson, Manhattan stockbroker; by Mrs. Sylvia Conway Robertson, daughter of Chairman Carle Cotter Conway of Continental Can Co.; in Basin...
Before Haile Selassie left, 400 sorrowful and sympathetic British mothers called upon and curtsied low to the Ethiopian Emperor, many offering him bouquets of blossoms from their gardens. Feminist Sylvia Pankhurst even started a new London newspaper devoted to Haile Selassie's cause, called The New Times & Ethiopian News...
SUMMER WILL SHOW-Sylvia Townsend Warner-Viking ($2.50). Wordy, but rarely dull, Author Warner turns to French political history, presenting an ambitious character study of a strongwilled, wealthy young Englishwoman who, captivated by her faithless husband's ex-mistress, casts off fortune, respectability; donates her services to the underground revolutionists; in time's nick escapes being shot for participating in the abortive Parisian insurrection...
...Wilson is on his way to marry Katharine Grant (Sylvia Sidney) when he is picked up as a suspect in a kidnap case. He is driving the same make of car as the one the kidnapper is reported to be using and is roughly of the same description as the man sought. Knowing that a lynching party is forming, the sheriff telephones for military aid which the Governor, because of political cowardice, at first refuses. By the time the Governor changes his mind, there is nothing left of the jail but a smoking ruin in which, at the flaming window...
...Schubert Second Movement--Andante con moto *Marche Miniature Tchaikovsky *Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner "La Nuit Revecue" ("The Night Relieved") (After the Poem, "Senlin" by Conrad Aiken) Bainbridge Crist *Second Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt *"Merry Widow," Waltzes Lehar *"Deep River," Negro Spiritual Arr. by Jacchia *Procession of Bacchus from "Sylvia" Delibes Selections checked '(*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square