Word: janes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comedy of domestic infelicity. Anne Morrison, actress, is the author, and it is rather more than evident that Miss Morrison keeps an ear to the open window to catch her neighbors' squabbles. The chief merit in the play is the fierce joy you can derive by turning to Aunt Jane beside you and disturbing all within hearing distance with the obvious query: "Isn't that just like the Sullivans...
...Mary Jane McKane. Mary Hay has been chiefly known as the wife of Richard Barthelmess, cinema star. One suspects that her extraordinarily effective activity in this new musical piece may shift the balance. The play is unquestionably the best musical comedy currently exhibiting on Broadway. And Miss Hay, despite her moderate equipment as a vocalist and as a dancer, is unquestionably the best of the play...
...comedian much handicapped in the past with inadequate material, is steadily and explosively amusing. A third individual, one Kitty Kelly but lately elevated from the chorus, displays stirring possibilities as a comedienne. Music, color and dancing are supplied in wholesale lots of excellent quality. Hence the nomination of Mary Jane McKane as the pick of the musical comedy basket...
...murdered. At this juncture the stupidity of the detectives reaches its climax; ordinary common-sense would have saved Stockbridge as eventually it saved the daughter. The daughter, by the way, is well done by Kay Laurell although she is a trifle too cold and expressionless to be quite convincing. Jane Houston, as the secretary, goes to the opposite extreme, with rather too much vigor; the other parts except that of Drew, the detective, are minor, but unusually colorful. Jackson, the too-amiable operative, and Jeanette, Miss Stockbridge's maid, have little to say, but they make a definitely pleasant impression...
Engaged.?Cyril Hume, 23, author of Wife of the Centaur (reviewed in TIME, Nov. 12) to Miss Jane Barbara Alexander, 23, of Manhattan...