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...Miss Hilda Field, secretary, said she expects to pay about $35 more yearly, added: "I'll pay it cheerfully. In fact. I'd rather expected to have to pay more...
...knocked down a policeman while defending the Young Master in a brothel, Ivan got along fine in Siberia until he drove a corkscrew through the commandant's neck for making improper advances to him. At a fugitives' hideout he was petted by a beautiful Swedish girl named Hilda who lectured: "You are strange, you Russians. Your eyes are clear and clean, and your minds are clean though not clear, but your tongue is a pigsty of foulness." To which Ivan replied : "We are sons of pigs; a pig was my nurse." When an old Bolshevik turned up, Ivan...
First favorites to drop out were Helen Jacobs, Anita Lizana and Hilda Sperling. While they were losing to Dorothy Round, Simone Mathieu and Alice Marble, respectively, Jaja was busy beating the weakest sister among the quarter-finalists, England's Peggy Scriven. Two days later, Jaja defeated erratic Alice Marble, 8-6, 6-2, in the semi-finals after being behind at 3-5 and set-point in the first set. This achievement made her a strong favorite to bring Poland its first title in Wimbledon history...
Divorced. Funnyman Ed Wynn (Israel Edwin Leopold), 50; by Hilda Keenan Wynn, daughter of the late Actor Frank Keenan; in Reno, Nev. She won $300 a week alimony. Funnyman Wynn charged that his wife was an incurable dipsomaniac, intoxicated "95%" of the time when not under direct medical care, for which he had spent...
Though the Metropolitan's headline singers are gone for the summer, last week's young contingent successfully presented such operas as Faust, Il Trovatore and La Bohème. In Faust pretty Hilda Burke made a pathetic, simple Marguerite, used her small voice conscientiously but not tragically. Leon Rothier, a veteran Mephistopheles, had most assurance and most art. Good-looking Donald Dickson made his Metropolitan debut as Valentine. Even nervousness could not rob him of the strong, clear baritone and fine dramatic sense that first made scouts notice him when he was a Pennsylvania steelworker...