Word: sylvia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Harriet Johnson (Sylvia Field), 29, actress (The Royal Family, Queen at Home); and Harold LeRoy Moffett, 30, actor (Three's a Crowd); in Manhattan...
Sued For Divorce. Lew Brown, composer, member of the musicomedy composing team, De Sylva, Brown & Henderson; by Mrs. Sylvia Brown. Allegations: that "You're The Cream In My Coffee" and kindred songs were written away from home; that her remonstrations were greeted with profanity. Alimony asked: $5,000 per month...
...seller, later vying in popularity with The Specialist, the poesy of Edgar Guest and the Holy Bible. Because the story of the book was thin, most of its action could be retained in the play. This commonplace idyll of the Bronx begins with the very clinical seduction of Dot (Sylvia Sidney) by Eddie (Paul Kelly) in his hall-bedroom. They get married, await the birth of their child. Each, fearing that the other does not want the baby, pretends distress at its imminence. Not until after the child has been born-on- stage, by means of shadowgraph-and after...
...develops that "Doggie" (Donald MacDonald), the proprietor of a Bronx beer flat, and Bee (Sylvia Field) are living together only until Doggie's consumptive wife dies. After that Doggie has promised to make Bee "legitimate," a condition which she cherishes. But Doggie has a weakness for poker, a game at which he is invariably unsuccessful, so he and Bee are about to be ejected from their apartment. At this point appears "Curly," a bigtime horse race bookmaker. He volunteers to give Doggie and Bee lodgings which he and his associates use as a "phone room" (place to receive bets) during...
...Besides Riflewoman Marjorie Foster, other heroines present included Miss Winifred Brown, aviatrix who won the King's Cup for a race round England (TIME, June 14); Ivy Hawke, Channel swimmer; Diana Fishwick, golf champion; Joan Manning Saunders, exhibitor at the Royal Academy when she was only 16; Sylvia Thompson, novelist...