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...Married. Francesca Lindenthal, daughter of the late famed Austrian-born Bridge Builder Gustav Lindenthal (Hell Gate, Manhattan, Queensboro); and Engineer Hans Renz, of Stockholm, Sweden; in Metuchen...
Dewey Roberts (Frank M. Thomas Jr.), a high-strung seventh-grade schoolboy, lives in the Midwest but has a burning love of boats and the sea. He adores his young teacher (Francesca Burning) because she hails from New Bedford, knows what a jibboom is, encourages his enthusiasm. When Dewey finds her kissing the athletic coach, whom he also idolizes, he is heartbroken, persuades his bumbling father (Frank M. Thomas Sr.) to send him to boarding school. Twenty years later Dewey, now an extremely important personage in the shipping industry encounters the teacher, dowdy and myopic, in a Washington hotel...
Says one of her Edwardian cake-eaters, "Every baby ought to have a silver rattle." Not all the children in this story were so lucky. When Francesca married Adrian it was a love-match, and their son Robin was no accident. But Adrian was such a drifter that Francesca finally cut loose from him, tied up to the solider character of Frederick. The child of their marriage was born not only to comfort but security. From the triumphantly peaceful room where Francesca lies with her infant daughter the story reaches out into surrounding space and time: to unhappy Adrian, drifting...
...Massachusetts' late great Senator Henry Cabot Lodge dressed up in a neck-length wig, quaint mustachios and Russian boots, making love to Marlene Dietrich. Two years ago, when he was a hard-working young lawyer in Manhattan, John Davis Lodge went to Hollywood to join his dancer-actress wife, Francesca Braggiotti, who had been duplicating Greta Garbo's voice in Italian and French versions of her films. Paramount officials offered him a screen test and a job. Said Actor Lodge, whose previous dramatic experience had been confined to Le Cercle Frangais and Hasty Pudding shows at Harvard: "I thought...
...Bulgakov had a distinguished record in the Russian theatre and, before coming to this country, worked under the eminent Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theatre. At the present time he is directing that successful comedy, "One Sunday Afternoon," which ran for eight months in New York City. Miss Francesca Bruning was unable to attend the rehearsal because of illness...