Word: janes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jenny. So long as Jane Cowl appears delightfully arch, points her wit with her own sly, luscious laughter and plays the scales with her throaty voice, she will receive plenty of homage. But many of her admirers who see her in Jenny will wonder why so subtle and personable an actress permits herself to appear in such a stale, superficial play. Co-Playwrights Margaret Ayer Barnes and Edward Sheldon have pictured John R. Weatherby, a corporation lawyer who has pampered his family until they are all incorrigible. His wife's senile intimacies with a Russian prince and a willowy...
...Queen Victoria wanted her Leopold to marry Frances, comely and rich. There followed a course of petty intrigues in which Jane Austen would have delighted. In the end Leopold married the lady of his choice and Frances got his equerry, Lord Brooke ("Brookie"). ". . . Owing to an ill-timed attack of measles our wedding did not come off until the following April." With trumpet's clap and liturgy they were wedded in Westminster Abbey, surrounded by people with fairy-book names...
...from the 150 h. p. speed launch Bogie. They had not slept for four days. Their running time was 87 hr. 31 min. The Bogie's owner, a Dr. Louis Leroy, was 5 cents richer-a bet won from Yachtsman George M. Cox of New Orleans, whose Martha Jane, racing the Bogie, faltered at Natchez...
From New Orleans, heading for St. Louis 1,200 miles upstream, "out to beat the record of the Robert E. Lee," sleek express cruiser Martha Jane and a smaller mahogany runabout called Bogie started up the tortuous Mississippi. The Robert E. Lee's record, made in 1870 when she beat the Natchez and many a shiny dollar changed hands...
...Author. Cabin-boy on a whaler, sheepherder, newsgatherer, fingerprint expert at a penitentiary, college professor (Smith, Simmons), social worker (with Jane Addams in Chicago), are some of the things Thames (pronounced Tahm'-ez) Ross Williamson has been. Besides novels he has written textbooks on economics, sociology. His novels (Stride of Man, Run Sheep Run, Gypsy Down the Lane) are meant to constitute a U. S. panorama. He was born on an Indian Reservation near Genesee, Iowa, 35 years ago of U. S. parentage...