Word: janes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Mrs. Jane Whiting Whipple Scandrett. 85, mother of St. Paul Railway's President Henry Alexander Scandrett and Northern Pacific Railway's Executive Vice President Benjamin Wright Scandrett; in St. Paul...
After dinner the Prince went for a gondola ride with the younger members of the party and, later, returned to the Lido to the "ornate pink brick Excelsior Palace" where he was staying. He and his party rejoined the Princess Jane who presented a Signora Cecile Kraus with whom she was talking with a special word for her ability as a dancer. The Prince took the young widow from Milan out on the floor of Chez Vous. an open-air cabaret at the Excelsior and danced several times. It is quite true that he danced only with her. but this...
...implication that the Princess Jane was in any way annoyed is absurd as she never dances and. after a delightful dinner, with "the most charming young man she had ever met" her only interest was in seeing that the two Princes enjoyed themselves...
...With a Load of Mischief," the American Theatre Society's present offering at the Plymouth Theatre, finds Jane Cowl rather desperately alone in an undeniably difficult play. "The Road to Rome" had set her completely at case; members of the audience went away believing that some of her lines had been spoken extemporaneously; and in Margaret Ayer Barnes' "Jenny," she had the excellent support of Sir Guy Standing. "The Man With a Load of Mischief," however, is neither facile, nor Miss Cowl's supporting players deft. The result is a case of under-playing. Like a tennis player that...
This reviewer, to be perfectly fair, must admit to a certain prejudice against actresses whose fame seems to rest on a weary drawl and a manner that frankly indicates that the world is too much with us. Such are Ruth Chatterton and Jane Cowl. After watching the former suffer the grossness that is masculinity (withal patiently) through two or three films, one suddenly revolts at the eternal repetition. The latter, while a less interesting personality, is not so monotonous. This brings us to the question of just what is acting? Current drama supports two kinds of actors. The first...