Word: joans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five centuries ago, when Church was State and monkhood was in flower, Joan of Arc with shaven head prayed on a pile of faggots in Rouen, while Warwick's English soldiers set the pyre alight, and the crafty-eyed Bishop of Beauvais, "Unjust Judge Cauchon," twisted the amethyst ring on his finger and watched...
...village of Farnham, Surrey, English monks, members of the orders before which Joan was tried, laid the cornerstone of a church to St. Joan of Arc. Present was Mgr. Eugéne Stanislas Le Senne, today's Bishop of Beauvais...
...Kenwyns had three children, two "normal" pleasant members of society, Alan and Joan; one ethereal sprite, Lynneth, lover of winds, rains, fierce lightning, awful thunder. Alan despised her for the hysteria she indulged whenever her family kept her indoors from a thunder storm. Joan hated her, too, partly from jealousy, partly from nerves. But Claire, the girl Alan loved, adored Lynneth, credited her with an "elemental tenderness." And Douglas, the man engaged to marry Joan, reverenced Lynneth, white daughter of the moon. "Looking at Lynneth with her remote and crystal innocence was like seeing one of his moments take form...
Best current pictures arranged (A) according to merit, (B) according to the money they made last week: (A) The Passion of Joan of Arc- superb silent study of a saint's trial and death. The Divine Lady-Admiral Nelson ashore. Alibi-skillful, authentic crook-play with dialog. The Letter- Maugham melodrama with Jeanne Eagels and good synchronization. Madame X- marks a spot where old-fashioned melodrama becomes good entertainment. (B) The Broadway Melody (records everywhere); The Wild Party ($30,500 Granada, San Francisco); Weary River ($26.300, Strand, Brooklyn); The Barker ($25,000, Loew's State, Los Angeles...
Married. Rufus T. Bush of Manhattan, Oxford undergraduate, only son of Founder-President Irving T. Bush of Bush Terminal Co.; and Joan Price Jeffery, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan...