Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio for Pond's Cold Cream. Last week, Maude Adams, now 62, seemed closer than ever to a real return to the Manhattan theatre where she was No. 1 actress (Peter Pan, Little Minister) in the decade before the War. She opened at Ogunquit, Maine, in Twelfth Night...
...cols. 2 & 3), Miss Adams' had its peculiarities. She herself performed not as Viola but in the minor part of Maria. The play was equipped with a prolog and epilog suggested by Miss Adams and written by old-time Dramacritic Walter Prichard Eaton, which attempted to give Twelfth Night the flavor of a play within a play. In the prolog, while the players bargained with an innkeeper and set up their props, supernumeraries, representing members of a 17th Century audience at a country theatre "try-out," gathered in the stage boxes. In six weeks of rehearsals so secret that...
...orchestra seats of Ogunquit's little playhouse a capacity audience of 500, including onetime Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts and Producer A. H. Woods, gave Miss Adams a five-minute ovation when she appeared, another when the play ended. Miss Adams' plans for Twelfth Night were a week in Ogunquit, followed by a two month tour of New England summer theatres. If she and the play are as well received as they were last week she may take it to Manhattan in October, thus annihilating...
...drove out to Ranelagh for some polo. No sooner had he left than his young wife, Barbara Hutton Mdivani, flounced out of Claridge's too, and retreated to a private sanatorium. Her doctor announced that she could see no one, not even the Prince. Thus began the twelfth month of the Hutton-Mdivani round-the-world honeymoon. For the next two days Alexis allowed nothing to interrupt his polo (on a magnificent string of ponies given him by his wife as a wedding present). Said he: "I am not worried about Barbara's condition. I hope...
...American Telephone & Telegraph directors met to declare the twelfth consecutive regular dividend not earned in full. Rate: $9 per year...