Word: widowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What a Widow (United Artists). This is a violent attempt to rouse laughter by an expenditure of physical energy. The attempt is a failure. One is surprised at first to see a film star so securely established as Gloria Swanson engaging in furious slapstick, but after the novelty has worn off the humor also disappears...
Part of the adventure takes place on a trans-Atlantic liner and part on the Dornier DO-X plane; through all of it the widow pursues tentatively hilarious adventures with various men. If the star overacted less, if the little plot moved with speed instead of confusion, What a Widow might be passable entertainment. As it stands, it will do little to support Gloria Swanson's reputation as an entertainer. Best role-Gregory Gaye as a Russian violinist...
Left. By Mrs. Ida Honoré Grant, widow of Maj.-General Frederick Dent Grant (son of President Hiram Ulysses Simpson Grant): an estate of $373,000; to Colonel U. S. Grant of Washington and Princess Julia Grant Cantacuzene of Sarasota...
Died. Mrs. Kiel (Anne Randall) Heald, 88, widow of a California lumber dealer, sister of the late Mrs. Jesse Clark (Hulda Randall) Hoover, aunt of President Hoover and of Dean Theodore Jesse Hoover of the Engineering School of Stanford University; after long illness, at East Palo Alto, Calif., where she had lived 30 years...
...will eventually receive $115,000 for medical research. A year before his death, Purrington acquired $150,000 under the will of his friend, Dr. William Carr, founder of the College of Dental Surgery of New York City to be given to institutions after the death of Dr. Carr's widow and sister-in-law. The widow has since died. The remainder of the $150,000 will go to New York institutions...