Word: janes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family, Sister Christina (Lillian Gish), arrives from the nunnery to spend Christmas. Before Christina arrives, the Parleys are worried mainly because they think she may decide to claim, by their father's will, their town house instead of the farm. By the time Christina has enlightened Theresa Farley (Jane Wyatt) about the cause of squabbles with a husband who teaches law at Cambridge; implied that her oldest brother (Moffat Johnston) might be wise to marry his secretary; consoled her smallest sister for a lost love; made wise responses to a brother who has lost faith in Communism...
...title and opulent manner. It has magnificent sets: Fifth Avenue from a bustop, a store window, a huge smear of prairie with phantom cowboys and dogies.* It has Fanny Brice and little, shrugging Willie Howard with his brother Eugene, comedians of, by and for Broadway. It has beauteous Jane Froman and commanding Everett Marshall to sing. It has a pair of Astaire-like dancers in Vilma and Buddy Ebsen. It has an incredible acrobatic child named June Preisser. It has good songs: "Suddenly," "Moon About Town," "I Like the Likes of You" and "To the Beat of the Heart...
...wardrooms of His Majesty's ships last week after the barges brought out the Christmas mail was a heavy oblong new book for officers to look at-the 1933 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships. This compendium of the world's war boats is as useful in the Royal Navy as Who's Who is in a newspaper office. Not for many a year has any Jane edited Jane's. Since 1918 the man who has compiled photographs, diagrams, measurements of all the world's battleships has been Dr. Oscar Parkes, a London physician...
...Lady of the Flag." Walking through Manhattan's Central Park, Nursemaid Ruth Volz found "a string of beads," put them on. Few days later her husband noticed that they had an emerald clasp, rightly guessed that they were the $70,000 pearl necklace lost by Leona Jane Ettlinger while walking with her father, Sportsman John Daniel Hertz, founder of Yellow Cab Co. (TIME, Dec. 18). Mrs. Volz returned the pearls, collected $5,000 reward, returned to her job as nursemaid with a Park Avenue family. Exasperated because friends daily distracted Mrs. Volz with congratulatory visits and telephone calls, because...
...Leona Jane Ettlinger, elder daughter of Sportsman John Daniel Hertz, founder of Yellow Cab Co., returned from a walk with her father in Manhattan's Central Park, found that she had lost a $70,000 necklace containing 77 pearls, four emeralds, a large diamond...