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...School and Cornell of six or seven years ago wondered if President Tone is any relation to popular, broadshouldered Jerry Tone who used to catch on the Cornell baseball team. They are father & son. Jeremiah Tone now works as one of his father's salesmen. Another son is Franchot Jerome Tone, actor (Pagan Lady, Green Grow the Lilacs...
GREEN GROW THE LILACS-Franchot Tone of the Guild makes a surprisingly good cowboy...
...scene is laid in Oklahoma Territory at the turn of the century. The plot: Curly (Franchot Tone of Hotel Universe and Pagan Lady), a happy broncobuster, woos and wins Laurey (June Walker), who mortally fears & hates a psychopathic farm hand (Richard Hale) in her employ. During the wedding party Mr. Hale ignites a hayrick, falls on his own knife in a scuffle with Mr. Tone. Mr. Tone is held for questioning but escapes to his new wife. There the play ends, with the cowboys singing "Green Grow the Lilacs" offstage...
...fight against the devil and his pomps during Act I, abandons himself to the delights of the flesh. Examples: Romance, Rain. The scene of Pagan Lady is laid in Florida, in a little town to which a convention of preachers has been attracted. One of the divines is Franchot Tone, a capable young man recently admitted to the Theatre Guild. Mr. Tone meets Lenore Ulric, a hijacker's property, and they struggle through a jerky love affair. Occasional advice is given by a worldly doctor, Leo Donelly, who even goes so far as to prescribe Miss Ulric...
...preferential system of voting was used in counting the ballots. The last men were dropped from the list until a candidate secured a majority of the first choices, when he was declared elected. The deciding vote for Marshal stood, J. J. Daniels 91, C. P. Franchot 75, and for secretary, C. B. Rugg 90, O. M. Chadwick 41, and L. Powers...