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Word: janes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mark Howe will direct the show; Mary McArdle '52 and Jane Prescott '51 will handle production; and Kay Mathews '52 will do the costuming...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idler Picks Sartre's Play 'No Exit' For Fall Production; Cast Selected | 10/26/1949 | See Source »

Preceding the regular discussion, Dean Sherman will speak on hour exams. Jane Rainie '50, senior class president, will explain petitioning and voting procedures for the elections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Freshmen Convene Today to Discuss Elections | 10/25/1949 | See Source »

...College in Annapolis, Md. brags of the world's most distinguished faculty-the authors (Homer to Kant to Kierkegaard) of the 100-odd Great Books, "the real original and ultimate teachers at St. John's." Last week the college added its first lady to the staff: Jane Austen. Newest Great Book: Pride and Prejudice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Great Jane | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...every satirical revue can find two pleasant new ways of ribbing Hollywood: once in a studio scene where a trained gorilla seems, by comparison with the leading lady, a mental Einstein; and once when three stars who proved box-office as slatterns (Olivia de Havilland, Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Wyman) chant their triumphal formula: Be a mess, be a mess, be a mess! And not many revues can offer two full-length parodies that hit at least as many right notes as wrong ones: a musical-comedy Hamlet (with Dick Sykes), which has the good sense to swipe its music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...debut at the Colonial, however, "Regina" is not receiving the production it deserves. Costumes, set, and potential singing and acting talent are lavisbly present. Jane Fickens has a good voice and enough unpleasantness for the mean role of Regina, and Brenda Lewis has singing ability and desperation for the unhappy Birdic. The other players seem quite adequate. But Robert Lewis' direction is seriously incpt and gross. Birdie begins too many of her songs lovingly stroking the back of a satin chair. The frollicking little Negro boy is nothing but trite, and Regina's daughter, Alexandra, is far more...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/15/1949 | See Source »

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