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Near Santa Monica, Calif., three sisters -Mrs. Ada McKeon, 80, Abba Miller, 70, and Jessie Miller, 60-destitute because of stockmarket losses, unable to pay taxes, waded into the Pacific Ocean, drowned themselves...
Married. Morgan Foster Larson, 48, Governor of New Jersey; and Ada Schmidt, 25, Danish companion & secretary of Governor Larson's mother; in a surprise wedding at a family party; in Perth Amboy...
...much discussion in the South since Uncle Tom's Cabin. Some of the people approve it- particularly the women. But others violently disapprove it. One man, a professor in Louisiana State University, said: "I don't see how a southern man could write such a book." . . . Ada Jack Carver, winner of several Harper prizes in the past few years told me ''It is a book that one does not know exactly how or where to place, but it is a book that will make history." And while talking to one of the most aristocratic old ladies...
...musical comedy 'Tootsie-Wootsie?' It's thrilling. You ought to hear Ada Lipski sing...
...Ada Beats the Drum. Ever since Henry James discovered that the stupid exploits of U. S. citizens in Europe made good literary material, perennially there has cropped out some work in which appears a gruff but indulgent father, a silly mother and a romantic daughter, all making the Grand Tour for the first time. Ada Beats the Drum is concerned with the antics of Mr. & Mrs. Hubbard (of Keokuk, Iowa) abroad. Having rented a villa in the south of France, Mother Hubbard (Mary Boland) encourages her husband, without much trouble, to frequent the local bars in the hope that...