Word: janes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Jane Alley. From the place Louis and jazz were born, there was no direction to move but up. The music, at first a restless, syncopated blend of African dance rhythms, Negro blues, brass-band marches, and French Creole songs and dances, spent its raucous teens in brothels, cheap saloons and street parades. Armstrong came up from Jane Alley, a squalid, "back-o'-town" lane in what was then the toughest section of uptown Negro New Orleans. His parents were the nearly illiterate grandchildren of slaves, his father a worker in a turpentine factory, his mother a domestic. Never...
When Louis was five his mother took him away from Jane Alley, moved some 18 blocks to Liberty Street, near Perdido in the old third ward. Socially it was the shortest of steps, but it was up, and for Louis it was decisive: near by were the Fisk School, where he learned to read & write, and honky-tonks like Sicilian Henry Matranga's place and thickly packed Funky Butt Hall, where both the syncopation and the dancing were strident and brassy...
...Paleface. Bob Hope and Jane Russell go prospecting successfully for laughs on an old western plot (TIME...
Johnny Belinda. A heavily laureled drama about a deaf-mute's regeneration, with Jane Wyman and Lew Ayres (TIME...
Johnny Belinda. A heavily laureled drama about a deaf-mute's rebirth, with Jane Wyman and Lew Ayres (TIME...