Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...School for Husbands (by Jean Bkaptiste Poquelin [Moliére]; Theatre Guild, producer). Of the Moliére play, the Theatre Guild has made a musicomedy for highbrows. The plot of the two middleaged brothers who woo their young wards with indulgence and tyranny is the same in which France's King Louis XIV played a small part in 1664. The dialog has been jingled by Poetaster Arthur Guiterman and Guild Director Lawrence Langner. Guiterman has written neatly lyrical doggerels to be sung to songs based on old French folk-tunes and bergerettes. Able Dancers Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman...
Died. Hernand Behn, 53, elder of world-webbing International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.'s famed Brothers Behn; of alimentary disorders; in his villa at St. Jean-de-Luz, France. Born in the Virgin Islands of French-Danish-English-Dutch ancestry, educated in Corsica and Paris, he and his brother Sosthenes, growing sugar in Puerto Rico, took over the island's decrepit, 250-subscriber telephone system, put it shipshape, combined it with the Cuban system a few years later. In 1920, after a deal with A. T. & T. had enabled them to lay a cable from Cuba to Key West...
...kept their old lineups and star performers. Squat little Mischa Mischakoff still plays first violin for Chicago, lean young Alfred Wallenstein the 'cello for Manhattan, with Bruno Jaenicke behind him blowing himself red in the face over his French horn. Boston still has Richard Burgin playing first violin. Jean Bedetti first 'cello. In Philadelphia sleek Anton Torello still wields the big bull fiddle; Oscar Schwar, who was a drummer-boy in the Imperial German Army, still presides over the tympani...
...Jean Tillier, affable U. S. representative of the French Line, resigned to launch an importing house with Henry S. Thompson, founder and former president of Thompson-Starrett Co. (building construction). Tillier-Thompson, Inc. got the contract for Pommery-Greno champagne and Chauvenet wines. Charles F. Bertelli, a Hearst European correspondent in Paris, rushed to Manhattan with a new wife and 17 exclusive agencies for little-known wines & liquors. He promptly organized Trans-Europa Corp. One of the founders of Hahn Department Stores, Eugene Greenhut, and Willard Karn, oil-burner salesman famed as a bridgeplayer, started National Distributors for- Distillers...
...Paris the Jean Frederic Joliots (daughter & son-in-law of Mme Marie Sklodowska Curie) projected alpha particles at lithium atoms. From each collision they recovered a boron atom and a neutron, which together weighed more than the original lithium atom and alpha particle. Dr. Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge of the Bartol Research Foundation showed that the additional weight must have come from the energy which propelled the alpha particle at the lithium atom...