Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the judges' decisions-tabulated, computed and checked by specially hired mathematicians-were announced, top score (521.6 points) went to long-legged, 16-year-old Joan Tozzer, last year's junior champion, daughter of Harvard's famed Anthropology Professor Alfred Marston Tozzer. But close on her white-shod heels (517.5 points) was vivacious, Audrey Peppe (pronounced peppy) of Manhattan. So eager is Miss Peppe to follow the figure-eights of her aunt, Beatrix Loughran, who held the title in 1925-26-27, that she went abroad last summer to study under Sonja Henie's skating instructor...
...relaxed the next night when they competed in the free-skating competition, a spirited five-minute exhibition of varied steps skated to music. Free skating is Audrey Peppe's forte. To the tune of the Hungarian Rhapsody, she delighted the crowd with flaring spins, jumps, dance steps. But Joan Tozzer so impressed the solemn judges with the simplicity and smoothness of her free-skating repertory that they gave her performance almost as many points as Miss Peppe's. When the two-day totals were tallied, Joan Tozzer was awarded the crown by the slim margin of one-tenth...
...Joan Fontaine's performance in "Maid's Night Out" comes as a pleasing contrast. Although vaguely reminiscent of the old Hal Roach comedies, it presents in a sprightly way the adventures of a playboy turned milkman (Allan Lane). The plot may be weak, but the lines and fine character portrayals of the whole cast leave the audience in an exuberant, happy frame of mind. Just to make the program absolutely earth-shattering, the management has thrown in les cinq Dionnes...
...Sally, Irene, and Mary," now at the Metropolitan, Alice Faye and Tony Martin rub noses, Fred Allen climbs a lamp post, Joan Davis goes into unbelievable contortions while tap dancing, and Jimmy Durante, back in films with his cigar and his proboscis, does his traditional "Again-You Turn-a" dance. A hodge-podge of the craziest situations Director William Seiter could throw together, the film makes no sense whatever; but it does succeed in being mildly amusing and sometimes very funny, which is all that was ever intended...
...Damsel in Distress" shows Fred Astaire taking his part as a romantic song and dance man far less seriously than usual. Burns and Allen are their own ridiculous selves--funny at times, silly at others. Joan Fontaine, Mr. Astaire's leading lady, takes no part in the humor but is a refreshing change from the usual Ginger Rogers...