Word: sylvia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sylvia Sidney does well as the girl-whose brief fling in a world of muscles and cold showers makes her long for a little bad ventilation. And Ernest Cosart is an exceptionally pleasant butler...
...Married, Sylvia Sidney, 25, cinemactress; and Bennett Cerf, 37, Manhattan publisher (Modern Library); in Phoenix, Ariz...
Accent on Youth (Paramount). Play wright Samson Raphaelson balanced this fragile triangle on Broadway for many weeks in spite of its perilous distribution of sympathy in favor of middle-age against youth. As a cinema it enlists the aid of Sylvia Sidney and Herbert Marshall, whose air of romantic maturity is accentuated by powdered temples, spectacles, and a polite, nostalgic way of asking for a kiss. Miss Sidney first becomes his leading lady (he is a playwright ) when getting fired as his secretary prods her into a love avowal, and ends as his fiancee after an interlude with Philip Reed...
...cast, consisting of five Harvard men and four Radcliffe students, has been announced as follows: Wilbur L. Cummings, Jr. '37, Charles R. Moore '35, Howard E. Roman '36, Richard H. Nagles '37, John Briggs, 3d, Miss Dorothea MacMillan, Miss Sylvia Taylor, Miss Peggy Mast, and Miss Altmann...
...Sylvia Thompson's ambition (in real life she is Mrs. Theodore Dunham Luling) to have six children, innumerable friends, no ugly furniture. By last week only two of the children had materialized, but her eight novels were a brood of legitimate offspring most mother-authors would be proud of. Her latest, A Silver Rattle, keeps up the high family average. As in Breakfast in Bed, Author Thompson's narrative method is centrifugal: her story is less a novel than a series of related pictures, not always in chronological order. But for modern readers who are not easily flustered...