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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jovian disregard for the limitations of the stage was presented very effectively as far as the mechanics were concerned. The noises of a spring shower and the attending roar of the street were as convincing as could be expected when they could be heard above the shoutings of Miss Inescort vociferously acting the part of Eliza, the "good" flower girl. The other members of the cast presented themselves in a more or less clamorous fashion...
...Rosie Rosenberg is a John Smith sort of name. Last week the thousands of Rosie Rosenbergs had cause to rejoice. His Majesty George V, Defender of the Faith, King and Emperor, had just conferred the august title "Commander of the Civil Division Order of the British Empire" upon Miss Rose ("Rosie") Rosenberg...
...divorce, a little overkeyed as such dramas are apt to be, and a little antiquated in its assumption of society's hostility to divorced people, but still effective enough to deserve smoother direction and a less squeaky recording. A lifeguard is the hinge of the plot. Having pulled Miss Chatterton out of the water, and believing his colleague's assurance that she admires him, he muscles his way into her boudoir one night and brings her trouble. Best shot: How the laughing lady, meeting at a party the lawyer who, acting for her husband, heckled...
...week before Publisher Taft's last illness, Publisher Roy Howard telephoned "the first news story from a ship at sea" from the Leviathan to his syndicate (TIME, Dec. 30). But the week before that, a Miss Ada M. Wheeler, onetime Cincinnati school teacher, "carrying with her credentials of a special correspondent," had engaged the Times-Star's city room in conversation when the Leviathan's ship-to-shore telephone service was inaugurated. Afraid that "a seasick newspaperman on board . . . might recover and 'beat me to it,' " she spoke to Managing Editor Moses Strauss for three...
Last week, the Times-Star was able to substantiate its priority claim with documentary evidence. Careful Miss Wheeler had obtained and mailed home a testimonial letter signed by J. L. R. Van Meter, Vice President of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. This letter the Times-Star reproduced, explaining: "It is not necessary for a reporter to go on the witness stand or make an affidavit every time he brings a news story into the office. . . . However . . . when a newspaper does something that no newspaper in the world has ever done there are apt to be some doubters. In order to prove...