Word: janee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loretta Young is beautiful and despite a lack of parents, home, etc., manages to sport some pretty capable evening dresses. Jane Darwell is a new hard-boiled mother discovery who is convincing. The school has a remarkably high standard of looks and reassures one with regard to America's reputation for feminine beauty. After all, these are just nurses, what must our movie stars be like? Girls will enjoy the "White Parade" but owing to its unflattering conclusion, the male sex had better go stag. No one minds a nurse becoming a wife, but who wants to see such...
...sensitive as she is presentable. The best moments in The White Parade are those in which she is conducting a love affair with a Boston polo player (John Boles), which begins as a joke and ends in what most cinemaddicts are likely to mistake for tragedy. Good shot: Jane Darwell, as a gruff head nurse, persuading her superior not to oust Loretta two weeks before graduation...
...Tudor park that our good friend and scholar, Roger Aseham, first caught sight of Lady Jane Grey. The little child of thirteen summers was reading ". . . Phaedo Platonis, and that with as much delights as some gentelmen would read a merrie tale in Roeeaeeio." The Duke and Duchess, hunting in the glade nearby, had been abusing her cruelly, for they pinched her if she danced ". . . they, good people, knew not what pleasure meant." The scholar felt himself drawn to this tender young flower of learning, and he watched her as she grow up in the court of Edward VI. At fifteen...
...odious Duke of Northumberland, plotting to transfer the royal crown of England from a Tudor to a Dudley brow, cared nothing for charm or scholarship. He dragged Lady Jane from her bower, gave her in marriage to his son, Guildford Dudley, and confounded for the nonce all other aspirants for the throne. Lady Jane swooned prettily when she heard that the Council in its pliancy had named her Queen of England. Meanwhile London could hear the rumbling of the distant drum, as the Eastern counties rose for Tudor Mary, and Catholic troops moved towards the metropolis. While Ridley harangued...
There was an attainder, a trial for high treason, a sentence of death. The kindness of the Lieutenant of the Tower was acknowledged, reproachfully, perhaps, by the gift of an inscribed copy of the English Prayer Book. With this as a last act, Lady Jane drew near the scaffold on Tower Hill, beholding on route the gory body of her husband, who had preceded her to the block. The execution took place, amidst popular lamentations, on the twelfth of February...