Word: joans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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GREY TOWERS ? Anonymous ? Covici-McGee ($2.00). Joan Burroughs wanted to teach, really teach. She got a job at the University of Chicago. And that, according to her, is the last thing she should have done to satisfy her pedagogic yearnings. All the professors, she found, were sexually predatory. Their wives drank cocktails, were migratory almost every night. The authorities demanded that the faculty?presumably in its soberer moments?confine itself to research laboratories. Even the student body was regarded not as boys and girls to be taught, but as a corpus vile, a collection of human guinea pigs...
Married. James Waterman Wise, 20, only son of Rabbi and Mrs. Wise, to Miss Louise Joan Hahn, of Manhattan, at Lake Placid...
...short time ago a statue of Joan of Arc was dedicated at Winchester Cathedral, England, and now it stands side by side with Saxon kings and with such figures as those of Jane Austen and of Isaak Walton. The sainted savior of France has been placed in an English Church, with minor figures of English literature and history. But, although at first this act might seem incongruous, it is merely a single manifestation of what Carlyle has called "hero-worship". For the memory of the great belongs not to one nation solely, but to all humanity...
...Bill was a thoroughly objectionable character unpleasant to meet anywhere, whether drawing room or Drury Lane. Miss Willard's Freda was restrained and well done. In contrast to the overworked sense of tragedy under which Miss Belmore as Lady Cheshire and her daughters Christine (Miss New-combe) and Joan (Miss Edlss) labored. Miss Cleveland's Dot was refreshing if pugnacious Mr. Clive as Studdenham was excellent, playing the part with the finished skill which have made him the drawing card of the Jewett company...
...this material the Boston Stock Company seemed, somehow, to move with less than usual skill. Miss Mason as Joan did some excellent work in the scence where she is supposed to be under great nervous strain, but on the whole the acting lacked that sureness of touch which the play demands if it is to be lifted out of the commonplace. The characterization is not subtile, but neither is it obvious; careful handling of the parts is essential to a good effect. As Peter, Miss Goad's voice is much against her, and her portrayal...