Word: wife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Mrs. Constance Willis Campbell, 32, wife of Negro Cartoonist Elmer Simms Campbell, who draws svelte white nudes; by her own hand (shooting), in Elmsford...
...father who comes home now & then in the infrequent intervals of his long, confident barnstorming career in pursuit of the champion. By the time his hard-boiled-ego philosophy takes the count in a riproaring, ten-round climax (the film's only fight scene), he has squandered his wife's regard, has never won his son's. In line with proved cinema practice, however, mother and son rally around after pop has had his ears pinned back, seem resigned to living happily with him ever after...
...Chicago a suit for separate maintenance disclosed a share-the-husband scheme which had worked temporarily. Introduced as evidence was a letter from Wife Mary Petersen to the other woman, Mrs. Caroline Bertram: "My husband is going to be home on his birthday. . . . If you want to come for coffee and cake it is all right with me. But remember, you are not playing fair with me when you keep him the nights he is supposed to be home. . . . Last night was my night and I was supposed to go with him to cash his check and shop. You took...
...whose plump, middle-aged mate, Josephine ("Ma") Bogash, is a roller-skating champion brought a $200,000 suit against the Transcontinental Roller Derby Association and Promoter-Manager Leo Seltzer. Grounds: "In the course of the races there are numerous falls in which the limbs of the plaintiff's wife and other parts of her body are exposed to the gaze of a crowd of spectators...
...dear to anyone-country, home, family, wealth and social standing." Soon as they arrived in the U. S., in 1923, Sergei was offered a $250-a-week job as an actor, in Mowris Gest's pantomime, The Miracle. But he quit during rehearsals. To him and his wife the play was "sheer blasphemy," its point appalling and incomprehensible. They found it hard to believe that "the Mother of God would deceive people just to protect the sins of a nun." The Goritzins, who spoke emigre English, had a hard time finding another job, finally drifted into domestic service...