Word: janee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard boys seem to have acquired an ability to do gracefully that which they should not ," smilingly observed Eugenia Rawis as she observed several exam-worm specimens toying with cooling refreshments in the Ritz bar last night. "They are just too, too . . . ." but the Jane of "Pride and Prejudice" current at the Colonial left that up to the imagination and became more serious...
Responding to questioning, "Jane" explained for the benefit of those who want a career on the stage, that in this, times have also changed. The all-year stock companies in which, formerly, the budding actor and actress got their experience has practically disappeared and in their place are the summer stock companies. In the eyes of the producer these are all right in their way, but they don't carry much weight...
...conventions of love-making have suffered many severe jolts since the period of Jane Austen's sentimental novel, "Pride and Prejudice." For the demure and innocent young lass of the 18th century, to be kissed was to be as good as married. Young men of today are bolder, and young ladies far less scrupulous. To enjoy the play version of "Pride and Prejudice" fully we advise that after you have completely relaxed in your leather-backed chair at the Colonial, forget all the progress of the last two centuries in the mating arts, and reduce your idea of the animal...
...would seem that the Renaissance of Women is but a recent phase in the trend of history, Jane Bennet, the beauteous daughter of a country-squire Bennet, and one of three sisters, nearly pines to death over a lost love in a manner that highly smacks of "days of old and knights of yore. In marked contrast the modern girl would never permit so much as a frown to belie the sorrow and chagrin within her. Sister Elizabeth, as played by Muriel Kirkland, is a far more sensible and sophisticated young woman. She, together with her rattle-brained, match-designing...
...might get up a crap game with Jones and his roomies if you are hard put. There are also several good shows in town. I can recommend "Frederika", "Blossom Time", "Fulton of Oak Falls", and "Jane Eyre", having seen them all myself during Reading Period. You know the night spots yourself. They aren't much but you can lose your more weighty cares among them...