Word: janes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jealous Moon. Jane Cowl, indisputably among the more decorative of Manhattan's heroines, put herself to the perhaps necessary task of writing a play that would deserve embellishments by her upon the stage. The play was romantically sweet, about Pierrot, Columbine and Scaramouche. A designer of dolls, dreaming in far from Freudian fashion of their unfortunate intrigues, found advices in it for his own and on waking up for the epilogue, promised to be true to Judy. Jane Cowl was Judy and, in the doll-designer's dream, she played the part of Columbine...
...stars can write their own plays, though Noel Coward in This Year of Grace, Mae West in Diamond Lit and George M. Cohan, in past years, have been able to do so. Jane Cowl remains a better actress than a playwright. The Jealous Moon is so sweet that it excites a mental toothache...
...torture. An impulsive young Englishman who loves her, plots to rescue her from the Crispin home. He is aided by an ineffectual young American (who supplies the only comic relief by frequent, skillful references to Baker, Oregon, "a place in America," where he has two sisters, Hetty and Jane, "good girls"). Apprehended, the Englishman is bound by the wrists, his back is used as an etching-plate, upon which Mr. Crispin cuts with a surgical scalpel the likeness of an ass. The American is subjected to mental torture. But just as Mr. Crispin, drawing on a surgeon's blouse...
Died. Cora Jane Flood, 73, daughter of the late famed James G. Flood, pioneer Californian; in San Francisco...
Dying at 72, Artist Stuart's brushwork remained unimpaired, though he is said to have been forced to ask a friend (George Brimmer) to sign a canvas for him, his hand being too shaky. As a rule he neither signed nor completed portraits. His daughter Jane is said to have completed many of them for him, his interest ending when he had done the face...