Word: janes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Singer Jane Fromain was finally back on her feet, and looking in the 'pink (see cut). She sang without crutches-in a New Jersey nightclub-for the first time since the plane she rode crashed at Lisbon, Portugal, back...
...Jane Cowl, fluttery, hankie-flapping veteran of 37 stage years, who had had some trouble with a backing taxi in Manhattan last winter (broken leg), had more of the same with a station wagon in La Jolla, Calif.; as it rounded a curve she fell out the door, suffered a banged head, cut arm, skinned knee. Two days later she was back at rehearsal for a straw-hat performance of The First Mrs. Fraser...
...neckline swooped almost to the navel). But it was in The Outlaw that his interest reached its fullest flower. In the flogging scene, when the bosom movement seemed unsatisfactory, Hughes decided that it was an engineering problem, called for his drawing board, designed a new brassiere for his star, Jane Russell. Thereafter the scene was shot to his entire liking...
Divorced. By Jane Wyman, 34, button-nosed cinemactress (The Yearling, The Lost Weekend) who recently got the nod for having "the loveliest legs in the U.S.": third husband Ronald Reagan, 36, cinemactor (The Voice of the Turtle); after 8½ years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles...
...says, "I hate that label. It's obvious I'm a woman, but what does that have to do with it?" She is well aware that few women have made their mark in the arts, and that they are mostly singers (Schumann-Heink), dancers (Pavlova) or novelists (Jane Austen, the Brontës, George Eliot). There have been women composers like Cécile Chaminade, but no Bachs or Beethovens; painters like Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keeffe, but no Rembrandts or Michelangelos; poets like Sappho and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, but no Dantes; a few top women...