Word: janet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Janet might have taken her pick among several nice Englishmen, but instead she married Carl Fischer, an expatriate in London who preferred loneliness in England to Junker-ridden Germany. They were very happy; when their son John was born, their cup brimmed. In the summer of 1914 the Fischers were planning a holiday in the Harz Mountains. Then John sprained his ankle, had to stay at home. When the War started Carl & Janet were in Germany. On the train to Holland Carl's half-forgotten patriotism gave him dreadful qualms; just before they reached the frontier he gave himself...
John could not forgive his father, and tried to make up for things by changing his name to "Fisher" and enlisting, though he was under age. Janet tried to do War work and was hounded out of one organization after another because of spy rumors. A few letters got through from Carl, then silence. By the time John got his commission and went to France Janet was afraid Carl was dead. One day in a dressing station John saw his father, unconscious, fearfully wounded. Janet, sure Carl was dying, tried to get permission...
After a seven-month separation while the Fox publicity department astutely built up popular demand for their reappearance together, Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor are brought together again in this rewrite of a stagey, old-fashioned melodrama. He is a rich man's wastrel son. She is a cabaret entertainer who is about to make a man of him, when they are separated. When they meet again she has become a drug addict and he is in the act of trading his fraternity ring for a bottle of booze. In a whirl of misty sentiment they work out each...
After seeing her in High Society Blues, Janet Gaynor's husband, Lydell Peck, San Francisco lawyer, advised her to accept no more such roles, told her the best way to make the Fox company feel her value was to leave them for a while. Though rumored to be quarreling with Peck, Janet Gaynor quarreled with Fox. She and her mother got on a boat for Honolulu. On the boat by accident she met Farrell, whom the public believed to have been Husband Peck's rival before her marriage. Afraid of scandal, Farrell took his bags...
...LIONS' DEN-Janet Fairbank- Bobbs-Merritt ($2.50).† When young Daniel Carson was elected Congressman from his Wisconsin district, he went to Washington full of ambition and high ideals. Poor, unmarried, a farmer, he had lived a progressive but black-&-white life, and as a Congressman expected to do the same on a grander scale. In Washington he was seen with the wrong people, got off to a bad start. His ambition found little outlet on the Committee on the Disposition of Useless Executive Papers. Then he met Senator Miller's wife, beautiful, socially powerful, a teaser. Congressman...