Word: janes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same night he is so overwhelmed by hearing Lillian Russell sing for the first time that he buys her $100 worth of roses. If his relations with both Lillian Russell (Binnie Barnes), who refused to marry him because it might spoil their friendship, and Jane Matthews (Jean Arthur), who refused because she was in love with his best friend, are shown as childishly innocent, this bow to censorship does not seriously impair the picture's conception of its hero as a vain, generous, clever, sentimental bon vivant, capable of committing suicide by eating too many oysters...
Last week Dr. Philemon Edwards Truesdale of Fall River, Mass., whom the Massachusetts Medical Society quizzed as a result of the publicity given him for his operation on Alice Jane ("Upside-down Stomach") McHenry (TIME, June 17, et ante), received this well-publicized vindication from the Society...
...ostentatious period, attended the Harriman ball that cost $100,000, the $200,000 James Hyde ball that became a great scandal, caused Hyde's disgrace. For that ball Sherry's was made over by Stanford White as a reproduction of the court of Louis XVI; Réjane was imported from France to recite Racine; the floor of the supper-room was strewn with rose petals. Lehr made more gossip at the ball by refusing diamond-back terrapin and the finest wines, eating only hard-boiled eggs and drinking only cold milk...
...Ginger, Jane Withers' first starring picture, is uncomplicated enough to conform to the limited rules laid down for child heroines denied the privilege of passion. It details the education of an urchin. Phase No. 1 displays her as a tenement scamp named Ginger, haphazardly raised by a bibbing old foster uncle (0. P. Heg-gie). In the role of brat, she stones windows, pastes neighborhood friends with fruit, eludes policemen by sliding gaily down a coal chute, fabricates glibly and frequently...
...Merchant Otero put his sons in boarding school, but they ran away; he put them in St. Louis University, but they quickly got back to the hunting grounds that made them happy. Still a youngster, Miguel met Wild Bill, Bat Masterson, Mysterious Dave Mathers, Texas Jack, Buffalo Bill, Calamity Jane, Doc Holliday, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Pat Garrett, Clay Allison and dozens of the dance hall girls, known only by first names such as Liz,. Dolly, Steamboat, Trix, whom he was to recall pleasantly 60 years later...