Word: janet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, been learned that the authors of the book, Joe deGanahl '25 and W. L. White '24, have wandered from Broadway to the British Museum in search of material. Janet, the heroine of the play, is said to be the product of diligent study on the part of the co-authors in the character of the modern actress. The British Museum, on the other hand, has yielded the secrets of the unusual life and tragic death of Don John, Spanish Viceroy of California about 1640. The main plot, which incidentally contains numerous other plots, is the result of the meeting...
...humor. The most extreme, most serious, most temperamental of them all is Geoffrey Wareham; the most dynamic, intense teacher of elocution who ever upset a household, The household, we might explain, consists of Mrs. Rodney, who tries hard to keep her equilibrium amid the general confusion her daughter Janet, the fiancee of Geoffery and intellectual sparring-partner extraordinary, and various menials, of whom Oliver, Geoffrey's man, is alone indispensable. The others leave because Geoffrey plays the piano in the middle of the night, but no one seems to mind except the unfortunate Mrs. Rodney. However, when Janet brings...
...York, does it as though it were made for him. His finished, keenly appreciative acting goes far to make this particular Stage Guild Production the undoubted success that it is. But his perfection does not stand alone. Maryalice Secoy, late of the '47 Workshop has the part of Janet, which she takes with an understanding and ability worthy of actors far more experienced; and Madeline Massey, another of Professor Baker's former charges, is charming as Mrs. Rodney, although her gray hairs do not look quite natural. That "fisher of men", Claudia Kitts, who is at the bottom...
...last page finds them almost ready to legalize their relationship. For one thing, Janet was going to have a baby ? and for once she didn't feel bored...
...JANET MARCH?Floyd Dell?Knopf...