Word: cowled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...material he had occasion to interview E. F. Albee, famed theatrical operator. The upshot of their talk was that Renaud went to Philadelphia for a while as manager of the Chestnut Street Opera House. He tried his hand at writing plays. Several were produced, including Betty Behave (Jane Cowl...
...Fleetwood clientele have always been gourmets of the gasoline world. But these latest models require the very pink of passengerhood. Only the jolliest, most debonair of present-day gallants could fittingly adorn the La Salle-Fisher Laughing Cavalier. Students of the Hals painting have provided it with hood and cowl of Wissahickon green; lower body, fenders and gear of deep maroon; wire wheels, rear deck and body above moulding of Talina brown; roof and rear quarters of tan Burbank silk mohair; mouldings of gold leaf...
...Jealous Moon. Jane Cowl, indisputably among the more decorative of Manhattan's heroines, put herself to the perhaps necessary task of writing a play that would deserve embellishments by her upon the stage. The play was romantically sweet, about Pierrot, Columbine and Scaramouche. A designer of dolls, dreaming in far from Freudian fashion of their unfortunate intrigues, found advices in it for his own and on waking up for the epilogue, promised to be true to Judy. Jane Cowl was Judy and, in the doll-designer's dream, she played the part of Columbine...
...stars can write their own plays, though Noel Coward in This Year of Grace, Mae West in Diamond Lit and George M. Cohan, in past years, have been able to do so. Jane Cowl remains a better actress than a playwright. The Jealous Moon is so sweet that it excites a mental toothache...
...most valuable single contribution to airplane efficiency since the War" was the epithet that Chairman Joseph Sweetman Ames of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics last week placed upon a new form of cowl for radial air-cooled motors. The cowl, shaped like a huge bowl, fits over the cylinders back of the propeller and over the entire motor. It cuts down air resistance; it lets a plane that can go 118 m. p. h. go 137 m. p. h.; it saves in such case about three gallons of gasoline for every hour of flight, and it costs only...