Word: janee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Private Life of Henry VIII (London Film Productions, Ltd.). When he has Anne Boleyn executed, robustious Henry VIII is in high spirits. He has a drum give the signal the instant her head rolls off the block so that he need waste no time about marrying foolish, pretty Jane Seymour...
...Jane Seymour bears him an heir, Henry is out hawking. He gallops back to the palace across windy fields, barely pauses to say "Poor little Jane!" when he hears that she is dead...
...acting: it is a shiny, caustic, understanding portrait of a personage as comprehensible as he is extraordinary. Elsa Lanchester (Mrs. Charles Laughton) does, next to her husband, the cleverest acting in the picture. Binnie Barnes as Catherine Howard, Merle Oberon as Anne Boleyn and Wendy Barrie as Jane Seymour, despite their appalling names, are lovely looking. Good shot: Henry, between wives and deeply bored, spitting out a mouthful of dinner before rebuking his court for lack of refinement...
Chosen "Queen of His Court of Love and Beauty until his coming again" by the Veiled Prophet, whose identity is traditionally kept secret even by local newspapers, at the ceremonious 54th annual Veiled Prophet Ball in St. Louis, was Jane Alva Johnson, 19, daughter of Vice President Andrew W. Johnson of International Shoe Co. Present at the coronation was Prince Louis Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, Ford employe, second son of the ex-Crown Prince, who commented: "It is a long time since I have witnessed such scenes...
After working as interpreter (he speaks ten languages) under Jane Addams at Chicago's Hull House, Williamson suddenly decided he needed an education, won a Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Iowa, a Master's degree in Economics and Anthropology at Harvard. Onetime assistant professor of sociology at Smith College, he has published six textbooks. When he decided to become a novelist, he planned a Balzacian series on the U. S. panorama. Critics jeered at his third novel (The Man Who Cannot Die}, and Author Williamson made up his mind "to get off my literary high...