Word: janes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Easy Virtue. Noel Coward's third* play this season met with the coolest response of any of his works here presented. Only the inventive and glowing performance of Jane Cowl saved the situation...
...tempted to say satisfactorily so. But the best story of this issue, despite the title "Her Daughter's Child," and despite the fact that it illustrates the undesirability of tacking bits of Mr. Arlen's style onto a Mrs. Freeman plot, is Donald Gibbs' story of Jane Fermier's grand-daughter who failed to arrive. The idea is worth a story and the characters decorating the idea are possessed of the breath of life. Mr. Gibbs has the good story-teller's instinct...
...Jane-Our Stranger. A play adapted by Mary Borden from her own novel of the same title promised to be mature and interesting entertainment. It held out the promise as long as the curtain of the first act. Thereafter it slid bewilderingly away into patches of sincerity and larger patches of absurdity. Probably an unusual overabundance of inefficient acting was chiefly to blame. Certainly it was too good a play to deserve the snickers of the witnesses at critical moments...
English 31: ". . . . But one cannot help feeling that Professor Hurlbut would be a better guide to his students if he lived less in the literary past. While it is greatly to his credit that he should profess an admiration for the works of Jane Austen and the eighteenth century authors, it is less to his credit as an instructor that he should at the same time proclaim so complete an ignorance of Michael Arlen and his ilk, if only for the sake of pointing out the absurdities of these scriveners to his pupils...
...novel, provide excellent opportunity for literary experimentation. But one cannot help feeling that Professor Hurbut would be a better guide to his students if he lived less in the literary past. While it is greatly to his credit that he should profess an admiration for the works of Jane Austen and the eighteenth century authors, it is less to his credit as an instructor that he should at the same time proclaim so complete an ignorance of Michael Arlen and his ill if only for the sake of pointing out the absurdities of these scriveners to his pupils...