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...securing waivers from the big depositors in defunct First National Bank, thus permitting a 100% payoff to all accounts of $300 or less. Most distinctive feature of the new Hupmobile is its headlights, which, while a part of the body, are carried in outline straight back into the cowl...
Actress of the Year was Katharine Cornell who, while the memories of Julia Marlowe and Jane Cowl were still green, won the palm of praise for her Juliet...
From the moment she appeared, long chestnut locks falling on a sweeping Renaissance gown designed by artful Jo Mielziner, Miss Cornell handled her part with definite authority. She seemed a little less awed by Shakespeare's rich verse than such predecessors in the rôle as Jane Cowl and Eva Le Gallienne. Her technical resource was never strained as she ran the gamut of shy girlishness in the opening scenes, mischievous eroticism on the star lit balcony, near-delirium when about to take Friar Laurence's potion. Newspaper reviewers sent up a praiseful paean to the adjectival...
...Theatre Guild has brought Jane Cowl and John Halliday to the Plymouth this week in "Rain From Heaven," as the second play of its Boston Subscription Season. The play was written by S. N. Behrman, from whose pen came last season's success, "Biography." Those who expected a similar play, however, would have been disappointed, for this new work is something of a comedy at times and at others is poignant drama. But it is highly entertaining and it is good drama...
John Halliday, as Rugo Willens, turns in the best performance and plays his role convincingly. Jane Cowl muddled her lines at times, but is quite successful as the philanthropic lady of leisure. Thurston Hall, who bears a close resemblance to Herbert Heover is excellent at all times, and particularly in the scene in which he drinks to forget that seen his wealth will be confiscated by the damn Communists Ben Smith, as Rand Fliridge, is awkard as a lever, and seems ill at case in the role Jose Ruben is splendid...