Word: janee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dogs should die, Dogdoctor Smith has a cemetery handy. Near the hospital, 438 dead dogs already lie in neat graves covered with vines and freshly cut flowers. Small white tombstones mark each place. One, a double grave, has a large headstone on which is carved "Mary and Jane of Sunnyfield?Awakened From the Dream of Life." Another stone memorial has painted on it a life-like picture of the deceased?a pomeranian. The inscription...
...Jane Cowl's latest offering at the Willbur presents itself as one of the best theatrical offerings now playing in Boston. Miss Cowl enters into the spirit of this charmingly vivacious comedy with a whole heart and she is well supported by an adequate east; especially Loon Quartermaine in the part of Malvolio. Added to this, the settings by Raymond Sovey are unusually clever and beautiful. The text is practically complete and the musical arrangement by Macklyn Marrow completes a good production...
...never let it be uttered, that the Vagabond, erudite gentleman that he is, forthwith abandoned his quest. Not so. Instead he made a valiant effort to get in the mood for these mental hazzards. For instance, he very adroitly hung in the wings while Miss Jane Cowl waved her hands and wrists about the zenith as Olivia in "Twelfth Night" which is occupying the foot-lights at the Wilbur (current advertising in this column is 90 cents per inch). That disposed of the Bard. As for Monsieur Homer (even if the nomenclature is a mixed metaphor) he perched over...
...Wilbur: Jane Cowl in "Twelfth Night". The highly articulate and manual Miss Cowl giving a really good performance...
...stage-setting designer. At no time did the dialog, action or story of Cafe rise above the general quality level of the littlest little theatre. Nub of the plot: Maurice Larned (Rollo Peters) fled from a U.S. wife, met and lived with Sally Burch of Akron, was pursued by Jane Geddes, also from Akron who sought to redeem him. Maurice's wife came to get him, Jane's brother came to get Jane. She, however, had become hopelessly attached to life in the Latin Quarter discovering that indiscretion was the better part of squalor...