Word: janet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lost Horizons (by Harry Segall and John Hayden; Laurence Rivers, Inc., producers). What a hotel was to Grand Hotel, what a dinner was to Dinner at Eight, Heroine Janet Evans (Jane Wyatt) is to Lost Horizons. In this play the dramatic assembly of heterogeneous people and events begins after she commits suicide because her lover deserts her. In the next scene Janet Evans arrives in a lobby next to Heaven and begins to read the histories of the lives which would have been bound up with hers if she had stayed on earth: a disheartened Kansas City playwright; a female...
...finds wealth such an obstacle to a full life that she makes friends with a window-cleaner and rents a furnished apartment in which to entertain him and his friends; 2) listening to Dick Powell sing. She meets these demands effectively. The impression she gives audiences is that of Janet Gaynor with a brain. A shade more memorable than either the Hutchinson performance...
...women reporters. Of various reasons and prejudices, perhaps the most tangible is his conviction that newswomen lack versatility and are practically useless on police stories. His only female reporter is Emma Bugbee, who is indispensable for keeping tabs on Mrs. Roosevelt in Washington and out. In the sport department Janet Owen was hired, at Mrs. Reid's insistence, to cover women's games. There are no others, and City Editor Walker is happy with a male staff which has made the Herald Tribune's metropolitan news the best written in New York City...
...like the Mae West type. . . . The kind of film in which Will Rogers, Janet Gaynor and Victor Moore appear is what we have in mind...
Divorced. Mrs. Janet Gladys Campbell, daughter of William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, newspaper tycoon; and Ian Douglas Campbell, cousin and heir presumptive of Niall Diarmid Campbell, 10th Duke of Argyll; in London...