Word: janee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bills. As with every intelligent Negro, genetics is an immediate personal concern to Dr. Wright. His complexion is light brown. Mrs. Wright, a onetime school-teacher whose mother was German, has all the appearance of a white. With keen intellectual curiosity they awaited the births of their two children. Jane, 14, is distinctly brown. Barbara, 13, looks like a little white girl. The children attend the swank, progressive Ethical Culture School...
...individual most likely to aid the nurses in their program is greying, matronly Effie Jane Taylor. R.N., B.S., M.A. (Hon.). Miss Taylor pioneered in the science of psychiatric nursing which she taught first at Johns Hopkins, and since 1923 at Yale. She is president of the National League of Nursing Education. Last June when Dean Annie Warburton Goodrich retired. Professor Taylor became dean of Yale's School of Nursing. Yale requires two years college work before admission to its nursing school. Students pay a tuition fee of $325 and emerge with a degree of Bachelor of Nursing. Graduates...
...Lady Jane (by H. M. Harwood; Arch Selwyn, Harold B. Franklin, Arthur Hopkins, producers). Playwright Harwood's stock-in-trade is his oblique and theatrical view of marital infidelity. In Lady Jane his premise seems to be that a woman may be unfaithful to her husband without any unhappiness or demoralization to the three people involved, provided one does not know about...
...Lady Jane Kingdom (Frances Starr) runs her gardens, chickens and doddering professorial husband satisfactorily, but soon after the curtain rises begins to have trouble with her children. Her daughter Liza (Lila Lee, oldtime cinemactress trying for a legitimate comeback) is a bobbed-haired nymphomaniac consorting with a London gossip writer who carries cocaine and an automatic. And Daughter-in-law Sybil (Frieda Inescort) thinks she is understood only by a vain popular novelist. Shrewd Lady Jane puts Sybil and the novelist in adjoining bedrooms outside which a nightingale is singing. As Lady Jane expected, they take advantage of propinquity...
...ones which have passed their prime. Although they may startle the trade almost any year with a new trend, they are not at present the most dominant influence in fashion. Preeminent among them are Lelong, said to be the best organized house in Paris, Chanel, Bruyere, Goupy, Louiseboulanger, Jane Regny, Lucille Paray, Martial & Armand, Marcel Rochas, Maggy Rouff, Vera Borea, Alix, Dilkusha, Jodelle and the redoubtable Jean Patou...