Word: janes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over 450 landlords, who originally wanted to be listed with the PBH Housing Reigstry, changed their minds when asked to accept roomers on a nondiscriminatory basis, Mrs. Jane Killborne, PBH Housing Secretary, revealed yesterday...
...LAURA JANE MUSSA...
...MARY JANE MUNDIPARE...
That prayer was not answered last week as the current theatrical bibliomania engulfed Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. If First Impressions resembles any fair lady, it is Jenny, the girl who could not make up her mind. The show wavers between Austen, Burrows and music-hall burlesque, and only the elegant Regency settings and costumes of Peter Larkin and Alvin Colt seem serenely self-assured...
...huntress of five carriage-trade husbands, Hermione Gingold growls, minces and struts through her endless matrimonial campaigns. She would be fiercely funny if First Impressions were a bedroom farce, and not a genteel domestic satire. As it is, Comedienne Gingold breaks up the house, and shatters the tenuous Jane Austen mood. The musical's key failure is that of scoring one of literature's string quartets for the theatrical equivalent of two brass bands...