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...front of an audience that pays to see you. Then you know in a minute if you're bad." Among the players who have kept the audiences paying for Broadway revivals: Eve Arden, Barry Sullivan, Ruth Hussey, Guy Madison, Diana Lynn, Sylvia Sidney, Reginald Denny, Jane Cowl Ann Harding, Laraine Day, Martha Scott the late Dame May Whitty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Stagestruck | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...gourmet who found time to indulge in his hobby of printing fine limited editions (Joyce, O'Flaherty, Conrad) and writing books (Crosby Gaige' s Cocktail Guide and Ladies' Companion, Footlights and Highlights) in addition to co-producing such Broadway hits as Within the Law (starring Jane Cowl, 1912), Smilin' Through (1919) and Coquette (starring Helen Hayes, 1927); of a heart ailment; in Peekskill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 21, 1949 | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...Jane Cowl, 64, veteran of 38 years on Broadway, decided to stop resisting; she signed up to act in the movies for the first time since The Spreading Dawn in 1917 (in 1943's Stage Door Canteen she played herself). Her role: the managing mama of Robert Montgomery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 7, 1949 | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

Among the first few plays: The Corn Is Green, with Jane Cowl; The Barretts of Wimpale Street, with Basil Rathbone; On Borrowed Time, with Boris Karloff; Little Women, with Joan Caulfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Spiritual Foundations | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...Girls. "There'll always be risks, and there'll always be accidents, but we can cut out a lot of the harum-scarum stuff without spoiling the thrills," Schindler says. With the development of the brutish little Offenhauser motors, midgets today seldom hide under the cowl outboard motors or souped-up Ford engines. Modern midgets have hit as high as 142 m.p.h. on a straightaway. On the small tracks, the doodlebugs have a ceiling of about 75 m.p.h., since chauffeurs have to negotiate a new curve every four or five seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Discreetly Daring | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

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