Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record has been made in the face of the fact that for ten years she has been playing, with superficial variations but no real exceptions, one role, that of Cinderella. The news that, loaned to MGM, she was to appear in a Ben Ames Williams story originally picked for Jean Harlow started hopes that Miss Gaynor's marathon might be about to end. Small Town Girl ends them...
...their eyes to discover herein such novelties as Negro Bandmaster Cab Calloway, the Yacht Club Boys, a British-sounding ingenue named Beverly Roberts and a 6-year-old moppet called Sybil Jason, imported from Capetown by way of London. Among child actresses, Sybil Jason is to Shirley Temple as Jean Harlow is to Ann Harding: less whole some but more refreshing. She made her stage debut at 3. doing imitations of Greta Garbo in English vaudeville. As a contract actress at Warners, she has been held in minor roles to permit her to "develop." Her current appearance is supposed...
...exquisite craftsmanship which had reproduced even the blurred edges of pastel strokes in faithful detail. Uninitiates might eye Pablo Picasso's Inspiration and find that famed artist's characteristic distortions no more inspiring in cloth than on canvas. But then they could turn with genuine pleasure to Jean Lurçat's bright, graceful Le Ruisseau-a stream of blue and white wandering through a pale green meadow beside great-petaled flowers of red, gold, black and green...
Died. General Jean Baptiste Eugene Estienne, 75. father of the French war tank; in Paris. Watching British tractors haul'up guns behind the lines in 1915. he interviewed Marshal Joffre. got permission to experiment with military tractors. In the second Battle of the Marne in 1918, 700 tiny Estienne chars d'assaut made their first big showing, brushed aside German barbwire and fortifications, were instrumental in the Allied victory...
...course of feeding doughnuts to cab horses and leading a "back to nature" movement along the main stem, he falls in love with a female reporter (Jean Arthur) who stars him in her gossip column for the local yellow press. Disillusioned at discovering this, he takes a gallant fling at the modern social structure by giving his money to the deserving poor. At this point relatives step in with a motion to ship him off to an insane asylum. In the uproarious sanity trial which follows he is accused of everything from abnormal mental depression to "pixylation" (state of being...