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There are six Palfreys playing tennis, five of them girls. After Margaret, Elizabeth, Mianne and Sarah come Joanna and little John. Once their father, John Gorham Palfrey, Boston lawyer, good friend of the late Poetess Amy Lowell, asked them if they wanted a tennis court...
...hurricane deck of the S. S. Leviathan in Manhattan last week stood a 15-year-old girl in a dark sailor blouse, a white canvas hat and black shoes and stockings. To the mainmast peak she, Joanna Chapman, ran up a small triangular flag picked out with the letter Y. Her father, Paul Wadsworth Chapman, handed a $4,000,000 check to Chairman T. V. O'Connor of the U. S. Shipping Board. The biggest shipping deal in U. S. history thus completed, the Leviathan's personnel was cut 10% and away she sailed with 1,398 passengers...
...youth, Joanna Southcott of Devonshire, England, was a domestic servant. Later, she became a mystic and dictated prophecies (in rhyme). She fully expected to be the mother of the "true Messiah." But no Messiah came, even though 100,000 people believed in Prophetess Southcott in her heyday. In 1814 she died, leaving an eleven-pound box with instructions that it should not be opened except in time of national stress and in the presence of 24 bishops. During the last century, certain Britishers have been reported as going into trances over this box. However, it was never opened, chiefly because...
Stigma. Last year when they both acted in The Makropoulos Secret, Donald Duff was inspired to write a play for Joanna Roos. He called it Stigma, produced it himself, acts in it and helps direct. Miss Roos also appears. The youthful hero, a Rhodes scholar, declares all colors and conditions of women are equal in his sight, proves his preaching by practicing it upon a professor's wife and her Negro maid. The maid begets a child, the wife goes crazy, the theory goes wrong. With such material, a play must achieve sublimity or absurdity. The professor...
...Joanna. If you go to see this one, lay no blame here. It is cheap and purple philosophy about midnight bathing parties, why girls go wrong, and all that...