Word: joans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world, tired of this giver of evil gifts, ready to kick him out of the age which, in spite of him, is so much like him, discovers that the old man has brought back to life a brave and beautiful and altogether lovely and lovable creature?Joan...
...expected that the Joan, brought to us by Shaw, is the Joan of our first love. She does not trail clouds of glory, nor converse with winged angels, nor does she fasten her locks within the confines of a regulation halo. She is the lass rather than the Maid...
...Shaw's play, Saint Joan, will be produced in Manhattan by the Theatre Guild...
...graced with one of those casts which could take turns reading selections from the Social Register and provide exciting entertainment for all. Charles Cherry is the over-bearing husband who is finally overborne. Violet Kemble Cooper lives and breathes the wise and witty wife; Joan Maclean flaps most agreeably. Louise Closser Hale is pungently amusing as the septuagenarian grandmother who has lived her extended lifetime exclusively in the company of ladies and gentlemen, and is getting rather tired of them...
...last. Then, at the moment of crisis, he realized that Inez had only been an impulse for splendor in his life?an impulse fulfillment could only spoil it. Her power faded from him?after all, he was made for work (he thought), not for happiness. So he stayed with Joan whole-heartedly?and was happy as well. True, the centaur was tamed at last?broken to the plow. But Jeffrey wrote better poetry...