Word: janes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Died. Jane Cowl, 65, oldtime glamorous Broadway star (Romeo and Juliet) turned Hollywood character actress (The Secret Fury), playwright (coauthor of such hits as Smilin' Through and Lilac Time), wartime co-director of Manhattan's Stage Door Canteen; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...took lunch at the home of the university's tall, grey-haired President Frederick Middlebush. Afterward in the living room he got a new round of laughter and applause by playing the Jenny Lind Polka as a piano duet with his sister, birdlike, 60-year-old Mary Jane Truman, and by giving her a brotherly poke with his elbow for making a mistake in her chording...
...Since 1930 Joad, professor of philosophy at London University, has publicly advocated agnosticism, polygamy, suicide, Manichaeanism, Christianity, rationalism, dualism, pacifism, appeasement, intervention, Oswald Mosley, Socialism, anti-Zionism, gambling, Jane Russell's bosom and better British cooking...
...gangster who can't kill his enemies but rather keeps them locked up in his cellar, Douglas plays the lead in a plot that gently parodies the gang warfare movies. Left alone, the parody would have made an exceptionally good scenario. The sex angle, however, in the form of Jane Peters, a country girl who comes to work for Douglas, imposes itself early in the plot and proceeds slowly but firmly to obscure the climax of the parody. Although Jane Peters has one moment of glory in a night club torch song, she is terribly miscast for her main role...
Hallmark Playhouse (Thurs. 10 p.m., CBS). Crossroads of America, with Robert Young and Jane Wyman...