Word: janee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McCutcheon, whose shrewd pressagent has built her up into the No. 1 female exhibition bowler. There was robust Marie Warmbier who, with an average of nearly 200 in three years of exhibition bowling, did poorly by sacrificing accuracy for speed in the Omaha tournament. There was freckled Mary Jane ("Little Marie") Huber, 15-year-old schoolgirl, a hopeless cripple until she was 10, who handled the ball like a grape fruit, outscored her coach, Marie Warmbier. Pretty, buxom Ella Burmeister, a grocery clerk, so excited one male spectator with her nine-game total of 1,683 that he fell...
Considerably less famed than the Walker and Ryder Cup play between the best U. S. and British male golfers, the biennial Curtis Cup matches are a healthy, respectable female counterpart. Last week in Scotland a picked U. S. team of five oldtimers and 18-year-old Patricia Jane ("Patty") Berg eked out a 4½-to-4½ tie, retained the trophy, which has yet to leave the U. S. Real winner was par which, ably assisted by the weather, gave both teams a sound trouncing...
Minor suspense developed before the opening over whether Academician Gerald Festus Kelly would submit the customary portrait of his wife, Jane. Three years ago he broke off the series of Janes because they had become an Academy joke, promised this year to prove his versatility by submitting a portrait of Eton's provost, Dr. Montague Rhodes James. Dr. James fell ill and Artist Kelly ended by submitting another Jane, this time in a blue 18th Century gown...
Biggest attraction of the Drake Relays, as usual, was Queen of the Relays. This year she was 20-year-old, blue-eyed Jane Mareton Phelps, daughter of Vice President Zack Phelps of Krebs Pigment Co., an E. I. du Pont de Nemours subsidiary. Queen Phelps is a junior at Northwestern, where she studies music, collects old bottles, broods over her two greatest ambitions : a big wedding, a big family...
Gentle Julia (Twentieth Century-Fox). Busily cornering the market on child talent, Twentieth Century-Fox not only controls Shirley Temple but also her antithesis, Jane Withers. Like Captain January, Gentle Julia is a star's ve-hide, perambulator size. It exhibits Miss Withers as Florence Atwater, small niece of the heroine of Booth Tarkington's famed novel. She spends her time disrupting the flirtations of Julia Atwater (Marsha Hunt), blackmailing her small cousin (Jackie Searle), annoying her grandfather, snubbing her aunt's most impressive beau. She has an attachment for a shaggy young newspaperman (Tom Brown...