Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foundation in fact has this remarkable statement. As anyone can tell you, Miss Cornell has appeared only recently in such plays as Candida, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Romeo and Juliet, St. Joan, & others-all of them, to say the least, of it, "good" plays, wherein she has come off by no means second best. Both artistically & monetarily, as witness her production of St. Joan, she can well afford the risk...
...Cornell's earlier plays are such bravura works as The Green Hat (1925), The Letter (1927), Dishonored Lady (1930). Few critics considered these or The Barretts of Wimpoh Street (1931) or Lucrece (1932) mon than a theatrical frame for Miss Cornell's great acting ability. Candida, St. Joan Romeo and Juliet, regardless of their merits, are not strictly Miss Cornell's plays, being revivals...
...winners: 1) Shirley Temple 2) Clark Gable 3) Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers 4) Robert Taylor 5) Joe E. Brown 6) Dick Powell 7) Joan Crawford 8) Claudette Colbert 9) Jeanette MacDonald 10) Gary Cooper Shirley Temple's margin over her nearest rival was bigger this year than last. New names among this year's first ten were Taylor, MacDonald and Cooper. Demoted, to the next group of 15 "honor stars," were James Cagney and Wallace Beery. The late Will Rogers...
...crowd watching Eddie being taken from the courtroom; the bullfrogs croaking in the pond outside the little inn from which, upon his wedding night, he is tossed out for being an ex-convict; a demonstration of the "electric eye" which detects metal objects upon prison visitors; Eddie and Joan talking through the visitors' grill in the death house; the preparations for a transfusion to save Eddie's life so that he can be electrocuted. For such things and the craftsmanship of Screen Writers Gene Towne and Graham Baker, Yon Only Live Once sets a pace which 1937 cops...
...RENFREW OF THE MOUNTED" is a chilling thriller for youngsters who like the cops and robber game as played in the Canadian Northwest. In 1935, Joan Baker's interest in the Canadian North-west was very limited. She was a member of the Strollers at Ohio State, circulation manager of the Ohio Stater, contributor to the Lantern, and an athlete in women's intramurals. John Weigel was a classmate, working his way through Ohio State as an announcer at the local radio station. They shared in common an enthusiasm for Ohio State's football team of that year. Now Joan...