Word: janes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When little Tom, Dick and Harry and their female counterparts, Mary, Jane and Joan, gathered around the breakfast table one morning last week, according to their several dispositions, they found their parents reading with serious mien the editorial page of The New York World. Little did they know what seemingly diabolical plots were being hatched against them. Had it been otherwise, their post-toasties, shredded wheat or bran would have been pushed aside in a paroxysm of childish petulance...
...Firkins, Minneapolis born, teaches Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, whence he was graduated in 1884. He has long been familiar to readers of drama and poetry criticism in The Nation, The Yale Review and other periodicals. His other two large efforts are studies of Emerson and of Jane Austen...
...Players came together in 1919, started afresh as the Guild, began producing in the Garrick Theatre. Theatreland cocked its eye at John Ferguson by St. John Ervine, the Guild's second offering; kept the eye cocked when Masefield's The Faithful and Ervine's Jane Clegg appeared the next year; declared that the "art theatre" had achieved new and notable dimensions in the U. S. when the Guild gave Heartbreak House, Mr. Pirn Passes By and Liliom among other plays of its third season. With He Who Gets Slapped, Ambush, Back to Methuselah, R.U.R., Peer Gynt...
There was Frederick Ballard, whose Believe Me, Xantippe! was produced in 1913 by William A. Brady, acted by John Barrymore. Cleves Kincaid wrote Common Clay, Jane Cowl's success in 1915. Mamma's Affair was the work of Rachel Barton Butler. Two years ago there was You and I, by Philip J. Q. Barry. Other craftsmen who learned their trade from Prof. Baker are Eugene O'Neill, Edward Sheldon, Edward Knobloch, David Carb, Jules Eckert Goodman, Kenneth MacGowan (producer) and Lee Simonson (scenic director...
...Millets Ernest Quincy '25 La Duchesse de Reville Ethel Thayer Madame de Loudan Edith Parker Jeanne Raymond Helen Grew Lucy Watson Mary Otis Suzzanne de Villiers Janet Sabine La Comtesse de Ceran Emily Sears Madame Arriego Mary Murray Madame de Boines Rosamond Murray Madame de Saint-Reault Jane Coolidge Femme de chambre Josephine Roach