Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tearing up the letter instead of using it for blackmail sharpens Author Lonsdale's point of showing that the British aristocracy could take lessons in morals from a sneak-thief. Good shot: William Powell-who hates sentiment and usually refuses to give it histrionic expression-saying farewell to Joan Crawford with tears in his eyes and a catch in his voice, both caused by the fact that he had a bad case of laryngitis when the scene was shot...
...terribly upset!" moaned Authoress Joan Young. "There was nothing regarding Mrs. Simpson in my script. I was shocked and astounded! I cannot say anything more, as the B. B. C. will not allow...
...daring and excruciatingly funny because one of the characters was frequently addressed as "Miss Simpson." Music hall and radio comedians throughout the United Kingdom fairly itched to utter the words "Mrs. Simpson" in any connection whatsoever, and these British funsters were still itching without relief when, last week. Miss Joan Young, author of a British Broadcasting Corp. radio revue called Masculine Fame on Parade, took her place to conduct this performance. The B. B. C. Variety Orchestra struck up. Itching intolerably, Comedian John Rorke stood by waiting his cue while the chorus sang...
...majestic" to the News. Not even the hallowed Edwin Booth, who last revived the role in Manhattan in 1878, could have asked for more. Actor Evans, a mellowed Britisher, trained for his latest royal part as Napoleon in St. Helena and the Dauphin in Katharine Cornell's Saint Joan. The purple sits well on him as he impersonates one of the vainest, cruelest, weakest monarchs the English ever had to tolerate. Sensitive at all times, Actor Evans rises to his greatest dramatic heights when Richard returns from Ireland to "this precious stone set in the silver sea . . . this England...
...monthly magazines on the U. S. newsstand, a newcomer was added this week in the shape of Commentator, with Radio's Commentator Lowell Thomas billed as editor-in-chief. Backer-in-chief was Charles Shipman Payson, the tall, rusty-haired Manhattan lawyer whom Jock Whitney's sister Joan married. His ambition to be a publisher appears to have been fired by the thought that the commentators of radio probably had facts & opinions to give the world which radio's timorous self-censorship bottles up before the microphone...