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...names on the billboards were big and bright. A few of them: Dame May Whitty, Gloria Swanson, Gregory Peck, Thornton Wilder, Diana Barrymore, Helen Hayes & daughter Mary MacArthur, Gladys Cooper & daughter Sally Pearson, Edward Everett Horton, Gertrude Lawrence, Ann Corio, Jane Cowl, Lilian Harvey, Anton Dolin, Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell, Ruth Chatterton, Mady Christians, Faye Emerson Roosevelt, Victor Moore, Maurice Evans...
...About Nothing" is by all odds-or most odds anyway-much livelier and much funnier than many of Shakespeare's other comedies, like "The Taming of the Shrew" and "As You Like It," that are produced more frequently. It is surprising that it is so rarely done, and Jane Cowl, riding in on the Harvard Dramatic Club's tailstream, is reported to be readying a production of "Much Ado" for Broadway next season. The play has not appeared in Boston since 1930, when the Stratford-on-Avon players did it and got good notices...
Soft Job. These two basic instruments are supplemented by a number of others: a gyro flux gate compass (TIME, Oct. 25), an automatic control for the supercharger, electronic devices to open and close the engine cowl flaps for proper cooling. The Flying Fortress now has 323 instruments, of which five of the most important are automatic, gyro-operated controls...
Like his brother, he has been stage-struck since childhood. Living in Manhattan, he chose to go to a high school in Brooklyn because Jane Cowl and other stagefolk had gone there. He dashed straight from Brown University to Broadway, sat around in automats dissecting the drama with an aspiring young friend named Moss Hart. Later he sat at the feet of "the master," Jed Harris. Harris produced Wonder Boy, and Wonder Boy produced Hollywood offers. But Hollywood (Craig's Wife, Yellow Jack), for Chodorov, is purely bread-&-butter...
...made half of a recruiting act which played Manhattan vaudeville theaters. Federal officers seized copies of the song It'll Be a Hot Time for the Old Boys when the Young Men go to War. Notable entertainers who volunteered to go overseas were John Drew, Billie Burke, Jane Cowl. Lillian Russell, Walter Damrosch. Maude Adams...