Word: janee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Broadway; slips, thanks to alcohol and the attentions of miscellaneous female admirers, and finally through the grace of God and of the ever faithful manager, well-portrayed by Pat O'Brien, is restored to his place in the sun on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera itself. Unfortunately. Jane Froman, whose part is small and devoid of any outlet for acting ability, photographs poorly and looks rather hard. Her voice registers well but the general effect is not nearly so fortunate as it is in the case of Melton. Pat O'Brien delivers the goods as usual and this reviewer...
...explain to Jane and Mary...
...revealed until the reciprocal trade agreement between Canada and the U. S. is published, but the President and the Prime Minister found much in common. Had not Mr. King taken a Ph.D. at the President's alma mater. Harvard? Had he not once done settlement work under Jane Addams in Chicago? Had he not written a treatise on industrial relations for the Rockefeller Foundation? All were subjects dear to the President's heart. With such topics for preliminary talk it was not necessary to dwell on the Prime Minister's post-election statement that "the people...
Pride and Prejudice (adapted by Helen Jerome; Max Gordon, producer;. Nothing in this show is below par except the antiques which dress the Regency setting for Jane Austen's marital sweepstakes. Playwright Jerome has caught in her script a goodly quantity of Novelist Austen's sly, introverted wit, and Director Robert Sinclair has seen that a splendid cast of actors conduct themselves with all the foolish elegance and witless frivolity of the period...
Lydia, who elopes with Captain Denny; Jane (Helen Chandler), who goes into a decline when pretty Charles Bingley temporarily deserts her; and Elizabeth (Adrianne Allen), whose sharp tongue and unfashionably candid ways finally ensnare the rich and haughty Darcy (Colin Keith-Johnston). Actress Chandler, the blonde and tremulous wife of Actor Bramwell Fletcher, and Actress Allen, the brown-haired, vivacious mate of Actor Raymond Massey, have been given no easy task in making Pride and Prejudice march. An extravagant admirer of Jane Austen's quiet, domestic observations was Sir Walter Scott, who declared: "I can do the big bowwow...