Word: jo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general features of the production are admirable. It has been handsomely costumed and set by Jo Mielziner, staged simply yet impressively by Guthrie Mclintic but still the focus of attention must fall upon Miss Cornell in this role which beckons to all great actresses of the English speaking stage...
...Jo Johansen, center forward, can shoot just about as well as anyone in College, Frank Harnden and John Johnson, inside forwards, think fast, are quick with their feet, and want to play the scientific game called soccer. Dick Lowis, center halfback, is already a well-known post. Be covers the whole field; kicks everything, often in mid-air, as soon as it comes to him, and seldom misses. But Williams at goal is the class of the league. He gets them, high or low, clears fast, and has plenty of nerve...
...Designer Jo Mielziner scores one game toward an artistic rubber for Winterset the moment the curtain rises. Up from the shadowy dead-end of a Manhattan slum street rises a pylon of Brooklyn Bridge, the span sweeping out of sight high overhead with a sparse twinkle of lights. Beneath this dark serenity Playwright Anderson's people go furtively about their sinister business. With classic disregard for the laws of probability, almost everyone concerned in a 15-year-old payroll robbery for which a celebrated radical was wrongly executed, come together. There is Trock, the consumptive killer who engineered...
...Better known for their records (Victor) than for concerts are Ben Stad, Dutch-born Philadelphian who began as a violinist, and his American Society of the Ancient Instruments. This is also a family affair, composed of Mrs. Stad, a son, a brother-in-law and a close friend named Jo Brodo who plays the quinton (five-stringed treble viol...
Died. Leo Mielziner, 65, Manhattan portrait painter, father of Stage Designer Jo Mielziner and Cinemactor Kenneth MacKenna; after long illness; in Truro, Mass...