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...original production (1934) in Hartford, Conn., people actually wept at the Cellophane scenery, the lovely costumes, the adroit stage business, and Harlem Negroes singing Miss Stein's screwball words about St. Therese, St. Ignatius, some 30 other saints. Last week the audience controlled itself better...
...more tenderness to animals now. He must forget now how he once made pets of mice, how he wept when his canaries sickened and died, how he gave nuts to the squirrels around the Berghof, how, when a huge crowd was gathered for the ceremonies in Vimy last summer a cur dog appeared from the forest and came through those hundreds of people straight...
...Rebecca). Thereupon Actress Lynn Fontanne, fresh from her evening's performance next door in There Shall Be No Night, rose to hand the Oscar for character to Jane Darwell (for Ma Joad, in The Grapes), the noblest Oscar of them all (for Kitty Foyle) to Ginger Rogers, who wept, screamed "greatest moment of my life" and fled back to her table amid dog-show din, to subside tearfully on the proud shoulders of Kitty Foyle Producer David Hempstead. Walter Brennan of the removable teeth got his third gold statue as the best supporting male (Judge Bean, in The Westerner...
...Greenwich Village song writer, law student and semi-pro baseball player. His sweetheart sang them in vaudeville, later heard them played at her wedding, when she married the author. When a Miami cabaret orchestra inappropriately struck up the song, at the time of their divorce in 1933, she wept over them...
...Justice McReynolds as the gallant, trust-busting Kentuckian of another day, the bachelor legendarily faithful to the memory of his schoolgirl sweetheart (for years he reportedly made annual pilgrimages to Ella Pearson's grave in Louisiana, Mo.), the courtly wit of Washington society Sunday breakfasts, the man who wept at the graveside of Mrs. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and for whom Justice Holmes himself confessed a fondness...