Word: actress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Probably oldtime Actress Louisa Drew, mother of John Drew...
When she was returning to Britain from the U. S. four years ago, British dogcatchers stuffed Mrs. Patrick Campbell's Pekingese, Moonbeam, into a crate labeled "rabies," hustled him, "shrieking with indignation," into quarantine. Next day Actress Campbell snatched Moonbeam from the official clutch, sailed back to the U. S., eventually settled in Paris. Last week, still miffed, still dandling Moonbeam, she soliloquized: "It was easier for me to sacrifice the happiness of giving my talent to my English audience . . . than to break my little dog's heart...
...debut in Catherine the Great was unfortunately shadowed in the U. S. by Marlene Dietrich's ballyhooed The Scarlet Empress, and her most successful picture, Escape Me Never (in which she also played her only Broadway role), was too easy for her to prove much. In Stolen Life, Actress Bergner gets. and takes, her first real chance to show that the German critics used to be right...
...total effect becomes rather depressing. In fact those who may go for relaxation after a three-hour Sanskrit exam may become a little embittered about the whole thing. But those who want to see acting in its very finest form, those who want to see a top-notch actress in a top-notch role, a drama that has real emotional uplift, those men better take a trip right up to a certain building on the Square and ask for Bette...
...There are 330 peasants, 465 workmen, 65 soldiers, 187 women, 870 Party members. There are 53 presidents of collective farms, an 80-year-old scientist, a 19-year-old textile worker, a Cossack writer, an actress. There is Comrade Deputy Olga Leonova, 42, whose official biography begins "Stern and miserable was the childhood of O. F. Leonova." There is Deputy Bach, 82, exiled in 1878, whose record begins, "A. N. Bach has lived a long and beautiful life." There is Alexander Bussy-gin, 32, who was so electrified during the Stakhanov movement that he forged 1,001 crankshafts...