Word: cowls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jenny. So long as Jane Cowl appears delightfully arch, points her wit with her own sly, luscious laughter and plays the scales with her throaty voice, she will receive plenty of homage. But many of her admirers who see her in Jenny will wonder why so subtle and personable an actress permits herself to appear in such a stale, superficial play. Co-Playwrights Margaret Ayer Barnes and Edward Sheldon have pictured John R. Weatherby, a corporation lawyer who has pampered his family until they are all incorrigible. His wife's senile intimacies with a Russian prince and a willowy...
Lawyer Weatherby is forlorn and frustrated until one evening when Miss Cowl strolls into his living room as Jenny Valentine, a famed actress. She immediately perceives that, despite his greying hair and prowess at the bar, he is a small boy beset by vultures. Sharing his enthusiasm for roses and stamp-collecting, she wins his confidence, lures him away to her camp in the hills, where, after a great deal of coy urgency on her part, he consents to stay...
When he returns after this idyll, his family are still so impossible that he deserts them forever for Miss Cowl. Not, however, before she has given them a rhetorical strafing which is the epitome of hokum...
Incredibly, he began to hear voices--two voices. (He insists that he "heard" them; no "Imagination" no, sir!) As from two invisible-well, "microphones," as one would say now. At either end of the cowl in front of him. And he himself some Third Person. A petrified audience...
...unforgettable experience. Utterly real. As though those two Voices were actually there-either end of the cowl...