Word: janee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theatre, and audience were all conducive to a performance of Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre"; the first was wet and sombre like the moorland wastes of Yorkshire, the second complementary to the Victorian setting, and the third the stiff, conservative type of people like those most shocked by the rebel novel in 1847. Not that the audience did not laugh in the wrong places at the nineteenth-century sentiment; not that they weren't amused at Jane Eyre's maidenly chastity: the way she folded her hands when she sat down before her master and was careful that the needles...
...detailed by General Custer to go after Yellow Hand (Paul Harvey), a Cheyenne chief who is leading his people on the warpath. At the same time Hickok's friend Bill Cody (James Ellison) rides to relieve a Federal garrison beleaguered by the Indians. Hickok's girl, Calamity Jane (Jean Arthur), can cut a man's hat off at 40 ft. with a mule-skinner's rawhide but cannot quite bear to watch Wild Bill roasted on a spit by the Cheyennes. Her disclosure under pressure of the trail taken by Cody's detail causes Cody...
Calvin Coolidge is not in the Dictionary of American Biography because he died too late (1933) for Volume IV (Chanfour-to-Cushing). Last year Jane Addams and Edwin Arlington Robinson likewise died too late, William H. Woodin was in time. Last week this unique race between Death and the alphabet closed as the editors of the Dictionary completed a twelve-year labor, published their 20th and final volume (Werden-to-Zunser). Also last week the editors violated their inflexible alphabetical order for the first time...
...Died. Jane Moran Benchley, 84, mother of Humorist Robert Charles Benchley; after fortnight's illness; in Worcester, Mass...
Slim, 15-year-old Betty Jaynes (Betty Jane Schultz) stayed abed much of the week, kept silent a full day previous to her debut with the Chicago City Opera Company as tuberculous Mimi in La Boheme. So ably did she sing that she won 21 curtain calls, unanimous praise from Chicago critics, brought the orchestra cheering to its feet, two pleading cinemagents to hers...