Word: janes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Things Happen. Clemence Dane, English lady, author of Will Shakespeare and A Bill of Divorcement, has a new melodrama on American boards. A very dreadful affair culminating in a slap. Katherine Cornell plays the heroine under the Jane Austen name of Shirley Pride. But Shirley is not at all a Jane Austen character. Her manly foster brother, played by Tom Nesbitt, has played fast and loose with some one else's bonds for the sake of a little spitfire wench. Shirley, in love with foster brother, purchases the evidence of his guilt from a salacious clerk at the price...
Avid consumers of musical comedy can scarcely care to miss the following 'diversions: Kid Boots, Poppy, Music Box Revue, Ziegfeld Follies, Mary Jane Me Kane, Runnin' Wild...
...parlor waiting for mother to die and hoping, each for self, that mother's money will be left practically intact to the heir hoping, Mother, with the usual idiosyncracy of a dying person, leaves the money to the least appreciated of the poor relations. But with the money Jane, the heir, also inherits the mother's wish that she reform Ben, the youngest son, and marry him so that he may have some of the capital. Ben, it seems, burned a barn in his early youth and has not been seen until the hour of mother's death. These...
...only valuable contribution of the picture is the versatility of Jane Novak in the triple role of wife, old prison-poisoned mother, her own daughter...
High notes in the present musical score are sustained most successfully by Poppy, Kid Boots, Ziegfeld Follies, Mary Jane McKane, Music Box-Revue, Runnin' Wild...