Word: jo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thursday dragged itself out interminably. Alf Landon stayed home, now glued to the long-distance telephone, now out in the back yard playing with the two youngest children, Nancy Jo, 3, and Jack, 2, for the cameramen. Grandmother Cobb took the children to her house for the night, came back to listen in her son-in-law's study while the platform was being read...
...lack of time for as much exercise as he used to get. He always eats light at midday, gives the stream of political writers and politically-minded citizens who have lately been pouring in on him a standard two-course luncheon. When a political correspondent arrived in midafternoon, Nancy Jo and Jack Landon were squabbling over a tricycle. Out on the big, semicircular front porch, with its comfortable swing, blue wicker chairs and table on which were lying a copy of Western Story and a cover-less May issue of Cosmopolitan, the correspondent played with the children under...
...those who had read Ethan Frome was that the producer would have a devilish time staging the sledding crash which is the tragedy's ironic climax. As it turns out, there need have been no such public anxiety. Between them, Producer Gordon, the Playwrights Davis and Designer Jo Mielziner have achieved a rare triumph of art and showmanship...
...White (by Roy Hargrave: Dwight Deere Wiman & George Kondolf, producers) is a one-act Grand Guignol melodrama about a family poisoning inflated to three acts. The facts that the play was written by Roy Hargrave (House Party), acted by Chrystal Herne and set as for a durbar by Jo Mielziner, do not prevent A Room In Red & White from becoming tedious. Silliest scene: the one in which a fiendish father (Leslie Adams) manages simultaneously to knock flat both his wife and their grown...
...strong chin, which means determination," puffed Arthur Brisbane in his column next day, "and a forehead to balance it." But most of old Columnist Brisbane's enthusiasm was reserved for Nancy Jo Landon, 3. Burbled he: "It is hard to understand why Governor Landon should bother with politics, possessing such a daughter. Nothing in nature is as beautiful as a little girl, and this is a marvelously beautiful little girl. . . . She may be the first woman President...