Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place in a musical comedy. The dancing is, of course, superb. Miss Rogers has learned in a relatively short time to swing with the very best, and her efforts no longer have that strained, forced effect that was noticeable when she was chasing in Mr. Astaire's wake two or three years...
Marriage Revealed. Seward Collins, 37, onetime editor & publisher of The Bookman, editor of the American Review; and Mrs. Dorothea Brande, his able associate editor, author of the best-selling Wake Up and Live!; last month; in Manhattan...
...Ostrers then went John Maxwell, chairman & managing director of the No. 2 British cinema company, Associated Brit ish Picture Corp., Ltd. Thickly set, be spectacled, abrupt, Cineman Maxwell has been plodding along in the wake of the volatile Ostrers for years, making less brilliant cinemas but more impressive balance sheets...
...should wake up tomorrow morning and through the course of the day find your home-loving mother being courted by a roue, your august father succumbing to the soft inpeachments of an ogling actress, your elder sister flinging herself at a married artist, and your younger brother making love to a woman who enters and exits over the garden wall, you doubtless would retire to bed in the evening, very willing to "call it a day." Dodie Smith has conceived of just such a situation and she has fittingly dubbed her play "Call It A Day." After the delightful performance...
...Conqueror and almost everyone else through the ages who has traveled between England and the Continent, the English Channel has been an annoying journey. This week marks a partial end of that ancient inconvenience. It is now possible to board a train in London, go to sleep, and wake next morning in Paris, as one of three big train-ferries carries the whole train across the 50 rough miles of water from Dover to Dunkirk...