Word: janes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ethel Barrymore: " Mrs. Fiske, Jane Cowl, Laurette Taylor and I were named by Heywood Broun in The New York World as the four leading women of the American theatre. He said that we will be succeeded by Katharine Cornell, Ann Harding, Helen Gahagan, Florence Johns...
...Christiania (Sweden) Evening Post published a list of names that have been proposed for the next award of the Nobel peace prize. They include Jane Addams, Secretary Hughes, Lord Robert Cecil, Professor John Maynard Keynes (author of The Economic Consequences of the Peace), Francisco Nitti (former Premier of Italy), Carl Lindhagen (Mayor of Stockholm), Warren G. Harding...
...Athertons are children of the moon. Though her father and her brother stumbled to their deaths under the lethal fascination of white moonlight, Jane Atherton has apparently escaped the taint. She engages herself to Major John Bannister, aviator...
...pivot of her mother's consciousness, driven a trifle off center by the disasters in the family, revolves about her daughter. Overpowering possessive selfishness sets her to keep Jane to herself. She forbids the match. When Jane stands her ground the mother bursts into a blind fury and pours into Jane's sensitive, overwrought brain the poison tale of her inheritance among the children of the still, white satellite. The girl's mind falters under the shock, and as the final curtain falls the audience hears the purr of airplane high in the foggy night in which...
...Jane Cowl. Besting from her record-breaking season of playing Juliet longer than any other actress, Miss Cowl looks forward to a season of repertory. Among the plays she has settled upon definitely are Twelfth Night, Anthony and Cleopatra and, of course, Romeo and Juliet. Rollo Peters will play her leading man in addition to designing the productions...