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Dancer who pioneered female freedom

... own in an era rich in such true originals as Al Jolson, The Barrymores, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Valentino, Clara Bow and Amelia Earhart. Reisz obviously found Isadora a challenging proposition and anxiety to portray every facet of the pacesetter and every ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1971
Newspaper: Leicester Chronicle
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 363 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

MONDAY TEXAS LADY (1955): Claudette Colbert stars s a newspaper owner who initiates an anticorruption campaign ..

... Starring Akshaye Khanna. (CHANNEL 4,2.20 am) TUESDAY, JULY 24 AMELIA EARHART: THE FINAL FLIGHT (1994): Diane Keaton heads the cast of this rather yawnsome biopic of the world-famous pilot Amelia Earhart. Rutger Hauer also puts in an appearance. (BBC 2 1.50 pm) ...

Published: Saturday 21 July 2001
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 662 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

Settling down in a town called Detroit

... fans, identity cards, closed-circuit TV, proper exits, review of turnstiles and new fire measures with a ban on smoking. Amelia Earhart, American aviator, born in Atchison, Kansas. She was the first woman to fly the Atlantic. Her autobiography, ‘‘Last . ...

Published: Thursday 24 July 1986
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 296 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Film choice If anything can go wrong, it does

... run from his colleagues aoeomganied by a foul-mouthed fema (Kathleen Wilhoite) who is handcuffed to him. (CHSS, 10pm) AMELIA EARHART: THE FINAL FLIGHT (1994): Diane Keaton heads the cast of this yawnsome biopic of the world-famous pilot. It charts her ...

MACHINE 281 MILES OFF HOWLAND ISLAND

... MACHINE 281 MILES OFF HOWLAND ISLAND HOPES that Miss Amelia Earhart and Capt. Noonan, her navigator, may yet be located are rising following the picking up of a fragmentary wireless message at Honolulu yesterday afternoon, indicating that the missing ...

Published: Tuesday 06 July 1937
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 358 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE WORLD FLIER

... Moscow t-o Omsk. l>rev' C crc «*sin.g from Newfoundland by* for distance a .>; 5s hr..? also rivalled'the record, V ««Gt Amelia Earhart, of making the of the North Atlantic 4 ACROSS RUSSIA. »t i' York a 10 - 20 am - on.Satnr\V°lS , of Jcmifruland (Nor- Sunday ...

Published: Tuesday 06 June 1933
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 387 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

TWO MOTHERS OF

... set up by Senor Compo, a Spaniard, and w'as the first woman fly the South Atlantic. At the beginning of the year Miss Amelia Earhart (Mrs. George Putnam), the American airwoman, flew alone 2,400 miles over the Pacific from Honolulu to California. Undaunted ...

Published: Tuesday 24 December 1935
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 360 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MISS EARHART AT DARWIN

... MISS EARHART AT DARWIN Miss Amelia Earhart, the famous American airwoman, who set out wom New York on 1 June to fly round 'ne world bv easy stages landed at Darwin Australia, at 11.25 a.m. yesterday (3.35 a.m. 8.5. T.), after flying across the dangerous ...

Published: Tuesday 29 June 1937
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 345 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Man of 71 to Marry His Maid

... Mary Heaton Vorse, the authoress. The authorities fear that the injured May total 30, many of them critically hurt. Miss Amelia Earhart arrived at Ban&Nig. Java, at 10.47 a.m., local time, on tier flight round the world. ...

Published: Monday 21 June 1937
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 369 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Water's Ferae

... morning the floods had subsided.'' MISS EARHART ESCAPES. Plane Wrecked When Taking Off at Honolulu. Honolulu, Saturday. Miss Amelia Earhart, the American airwoman, crashed as she took off on (lie second lap of her round-the-world flight here to-day. She and ...

Published: Monday 22 March 1937
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 399 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

MISS EARHART IN LONDON

... Following all the excitement yesterlay, and the fatigue consequent upon their great achievement in flying the Atlantic, Miss Amelia Earhart, Lieut. Wilmer Stultz, the pilot, who navigated the seaplane Friendship from Newfoundland Burry Port, Wales, and Mr. Lou ...

Published: Wednesday 20 June 1928
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 377 | Page: 8 | Tags: none