Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Older critics still refer nostalgically to the way Olive Fremstad interpreted the great Wagner heroines. The younger generation of operagoers hears little about the woman who, from the beginning of the century to the time of the War, was one of the most vital, colorful figures appearing anywhere in public. Fremstad was the daughter of a Swedish masseuse and a Norwegian doctor who gave up a profitable practice in Oslo to go to the U. S. as a Methodist missionary. Settling in St. Peter, some 75 miles from Minneapolis, the self-appointed evangelist toured the Minnesota countryside, holding burning revival...
...those who think a Harvard biddie is a meek, Maude Adams wisp of a woman who glides unseen and unheard through the monastic suites with pail and dustup, the life of one Crimson editor will seem a complete enigma. Mrs G. . . . to whom he wistfully refers as "the woman who allegedly cleans my room," is a German fran of no mean tonnage and poundage, who keeps both him and his roommate completely under her thumb. Unfortunately for his relations with his redoubtable keeper the editor is far from the paragon of neatness, and at any given time his bedroom looks...
...Scarlett falls in love. One day on the beach she slips out of her male attire, steals the dress of a girl in swimming, goes up to his house. What follows is one of those scenes which Miss Hepburn plays with her best intuition,, a scene in which a woman who has played a man so long that she has abdicated her sex tries to become a woman for the man she loves. Equally well done is a scene in which she rescues Aherne's sultry mistress (Princess Natalie Paley) from a suicide attempt in the surf...
Gimbel Bros, department store awarded its prize for Philadelphia's Woman of the Year to stately Mrs. George Horace Lorimer, wife of the editor of the Saturday Evening Post. During 1935 busy Mrs. Lorimer helped return grand opera to Philadelphia, sponsored charities, presided over the Republican Women of Pennsylvania, led the Republican Women of Philadelphia in a threat to plant protest potatoes on their front lawns (TIME...
...without ever seeing the U. S. Drought, floods, pestilence, the Boxer Rebellion, the Chinese Revolution-she lived through them all. Once every seven years she and her family went "home." Less & less of a Protestant with the years, she drifted away from her husband and his God, lived a woman's religion of her own. Says Author Buck, strongly on Carie's side: "Since those days ... I have hated Saint Paul with all my heart and so must all true women hate him. I think. . . ." With her long job done, her surviving children grown and gone, Carie died...