Word: janee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven years ago he married Elizabeth Jane Briggs, daughter of body-building Walter Owen Briggs. They have five children...
Besides the fact that they save a few people from wasting quite as tremendous an amount of time as does the average student, college dramatics have moulded many a future star, according to Katharine Hepburn, interviewed at the Colonial Theatre after one of her last Boston appearances in "Jane Eyre...
...brilliant is Katharine Hepburn as Jane Eyre that the critic, even, must admit he forgets the part of the flery heroine is being played by an actress and not by Jane Eyre. Possersed herself with a rebellious and independent nature, she makes the character real and vivid. As her lover, the haughty, physically powerful Rochester--whose tyranny merely serves to cover a deep tenderness, Dennis Hoey supports Miss Hepburn extremely well. At all times he is her equal as an actor, and no-where can it be said that he is completely outdone by his colleague's superb performance...
...novel "Jane Eyre" will always remain an interesting document, because of its intense individuality in an age when conventionality was the rule and never the exception. To appreciate the greatness of Charlotte Bronie's achievement, it is necessary to realize what audacity she displayed in the face of the stern early Victorian period. She shocked her contemporaries by revealing a heroine consumed with passion and broke the traditional theory that woman could only be the loved and not the lover. Though the situation used in the novel had been used many times before, the theme was radical. The former shows...
...first Miss Jerome starts off on the wrong foot by encouraging the audience to laugh at the florid language, and then later depending on it to grasp the drama when the same language is used in tense moments. But in spite of these inconsistencies, which are gradually being eliminated, "Jane Eyre" is an admirable production and one that should please New York almost as much as Boston...