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1927Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-American author and screenwriter (died 2013)[†]
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was a British and American novelist and screenwriter. She is best known for her collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of film director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant.
Sun Fo, Minister of Communications in Hankow govt, wants foreign trade
Commended by Police Comr Warren for killing J Marcus, member of kidnapping band
Two hundred girls and boys attending the New York Preparatory School. Franklin and Jefferson Avenues, Brooklyn, voted yesterday to go without their luncheons next Monday and to contribute the money they would have spent to the relief of the flood sufferers.
Testimony completed; Gray concludes his story
Provision for Amer supervision in 1928 election, in truce effected by H L Stimson
PARIS, May 6. -- As the lapse of time since their departure increases, without news of the French fliers who headed for South America from Senegal on Thursday, fears here become stronger that in the laconic phrase of Captain Saint Roman, the commanding pilot, they "will never receive a reprimand" for attempting their flight in a plane unequipped with pontoons.
NEW ORLEANS, May 6. -- No new crevasses or rumors of impending disaster along the far-flung Louisiana levee lines were reported today, due to the fact that the crest of the Mississippi flood has slowed down following the minor breaks in the levees north of Vicksburg and south of Natchez.
With Mrs Smith celebrates 27th anniversary with family dinner party in N Y C and trip to circus
Interviewed by reporters at tea in her apt; I L Ernst, attorney, reveals Heckscher contract called for her giving up her career as public concert singer "for hire;" Heckscher leaves Cherbourg for Breman