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Date: 30 March 1908
Devika Rani Chaudhuri (Bengali pronunciation: [debika raɳi]; 30 March 1908 – 9 March 1994), known professionally as Devika Rani, was an Indian actress who worked in Hindi cinema. Widely acknowledged as the First Lady of Indian cinema, Devika Rani is regarded as one of the greatest actresses. She was the first recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award and was awarded the Padma Shri. One of the highest-paid actress of the 1930s and early 1940s, she appeared in Box Office India's "Top Actresses" list in 1940 and 1941.
Born into a wealthy, anglicized Indian family, Devika Rani was sent to boarding school in England at age nine and grew up in that country. In 1928, she met Himanshu Rai, an Indian film-producer, and married him the following year. She assisted in costume design and art direction for Rai's experimental silent film A Throw of Dice (1929). Both of them then went to Germany and received training in film-making at UFA Studios in Berlin. Rai then cast himself as hero and her as heroine in his next production, the bilingual film Karma, made simultaneously in English and Hindi. The film premiered in England in 1933, elicited interest there for a prolonged kissing scene featuring the real-life couple, and flopped badly in India. The couple returned to Bombay, India in 1934, where Himanshu Rai established a production studio, Bombay Talkies, in partnership with certain other people. They changed their studio name. The studio produced several successful films over the next 5–6 years in that time of period, and Devika Rani played the lead role in many of them. Her on-screen pairing with Ashok Kumar became popular in India.
Following Rai's death in 1940, Devika Rani took control of the studio and produced some more films in partnership with her late husband's associates, namely Sashadhar Mukherjee and Ashok Kumar. As she was to recollect in her old age, the films which she supervised tended to flop or be more average hits, while the films supervised by the partners tended to be hits. In 1945, she retired from films, married the Russian painter Svetoslav Roerich and moved to his estate on the outskirts of Bangalore, thereafter leading a very reclusive life for the next five decades. Her persona, no less than her film roles, were considered socially unconventional. Her awards include the Padma Shri (1958), Dadasaheb Phalke Award (1969) and the Soviet Land Nehru Award (1990).
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Date: 30 March 1908
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, March 29. -- The news that the Kaiser has withdrawn his objections to the appointment of Dr. David Jayne Hill as Ambassador to Germany greatly pleases Dr. Hill's many friends in Washington.
Date: 31 March 1908
PROVIDENCE, March 30. -- Forrest M. Crawford, shortstop for the Providence Baseball Club of last season and under contract with the club for the coming season, died at his home at Austin. Texas, yesterday morning of blood poisoning, after a short illness. The news was a great shock to Manager Duffy, who had no inkling that the player was sick.
Date: 31 March 1908
Many prophecies went wrong in yesterday's market, inasmuch as most of those making predictions apparently had in mind important fluctuations in the principal stocks. The character of the trading on Saturday was taken into consideration, and the news developments in the meantime fortified the postions taken by those who elected to tell what was likely to happen in the market in the course of the day.
Date: 31 March 1908
Date: 30 March 1908
Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Date: 31 March 1908
Special to The New York Times