Word: joans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Married. Joan Higginson, daughter of Francis Lee Higginson, partner of Lee Higginson & Co. (Boston investment bank); to Alexander Mackay-Smith of Manhattan; in Boston...
Although many spikes and cleats have done their obliterative best, the Stadium has not quite lost the touch of a buskined foot. The Joan of Arc of Maude Adams was one of the first plays to be presented here, and "Caliban", the effort of Percy Mackaye to go Browning, and Shakespeare, one better was given shortly after the World War. And the classical play has not absented itself from classical setting, for the "Iphigenia in Taurus" of the company of Granville Barker likewise saw worthy performance in appropriate surroundings. Within the year Miss Anglin's "Electra" has been produced...
...obeyed. The pictures were silly and terrible; their names had a dark and foolish clamor-My Pain Sheltering Beneath Your Hand, Here Am I. Passing them at last, to look at Sir William Orpen's bitterly melodramatic The Black Cap, or the clever work of 14-year-old Joan Manning Saunders, the smart happy people imitated Premier Baldwin's solemn headshake. "Dreadful . . ." they said, "a shocking thing...
Across to Singapore. Two seagoing sons of Jeremiah Shore of Paradise Cove, Mass., take a voyage to Singapore. One of them, ugly Mark (Ernest Torrence), becomes marooned with drink and Chinawomen, forgets his fiancée (Joan Crawford). The other son, handsome Joel (Ramon Novarro), is brought home in chains by the villainous members of the crew, who tell his father that he deserted Brother Mark. That is a lie. To vindicate himself, Brother Joel again sails to Singapore to fetch Brother Mark with the aid of Brother Mark's fiancée. After much skullduggery on land...
...Seats presents the struggle of a lady with a shady past to keep her daughter out 01 the shade. After a fine first act in which the lady in question, well played by Joan Storm, fights with the man who has been keeping her and takes a job in a traveling burlesque show, Author Edward Massey gets so many ideas that he has no more time for true writing. He turns for help to a theatrical cliché-the daughter (Patricia Barclay) falls in love with a man who has been her mother's lover. But even the clich...