Word: rappaport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clara Adams, famed in airline circles as an inveterate first-nighter, saw her chance. When Pan American's Dixie Clipper soared away from Port Washington, L. I. on its first transatlantic passenger flight, Mrs. Adams took her seat. In Marseille her plans nearly went agley. Fellow-tripper Julius Rappaport of Allentown, Pa., confessed that he too hankered to make a record. With chivalry worthy of Phileas Fogg, he finally withdrew, leaving Widow Adams unrivaled in the field. July 3rd found Widow Adams in Jodhpur, India, joshing its photophobic maharajah into posing with her for a snapshot. But her biggest...
...Time. In response to the wishes of the Hays office, which also effected a few improving variations on the morals of the personages involved, the heroine's name was changed from Teddy Stern to Teddy Shaw, the hero's from Chick Kessler to Chick Kirkland. Aaronson and Rappaport were Anglicized respectively as Armbruster and Beatty, and even "Itchy" Flexner, the buffoon of the piece, was, according to Author Kober, "forced to change his proud family name to Faulkner...
...Dybbuk (Ludwig Prywes). In Yiddish folklore, a dybbuk (pronounced dee-book) is a disembodied soul, denied peace in after life because of some earthly transgression, seeking refuge in the body of one it has loved. Twenty years ago, the late Playwright Solomon Rappaport, writing as S. Ansky, wove the myth of the dybbuk into a Jewish folk play. The Dybbuk has since become the most famous item in Yiddish drama, even more widely known than The Golem (TIME, March 29). Every major city in the world has seen it staged; it has been translated into 17 tongues, including Esperanto. Rappaport...
Portraitists. Three European portraitists, two serious and one not, showed their wares to prospective patrons. At the Newhouse Galleries Austrian Dario Rappaport, skilled painter of such illustrious opposites as Frank B. Kellogg, Benito Mussolini, Pope Pius XI and Bebe Daniels' grandmother, took the palm for traditional solidity. At the Marie Sterner Galleries Arthur Kaufmann, capable and colorful German emigre, showed character studies of the late George Gershwin, Luise Rainer as a plain and pensive 17-year-old in Düsseldorf. At the Georgette Passedoit Gallery were 23 oddities by a healthily impudent 21-year-old Danish girl named...
...hearted Fay Fromkin, whose girl friend, a late comer, is Teddy Stern (Katherine Locke). Teddy, an unsure, shy little typist with a great desire for gentility, is glad to get away from home for the first time, glad to escape her mother's nagging about the way Sam Rappaport jilted her after they had been going steady for three years...