Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the spring and summer whoop-ing-cough season of 1935 Miller-main-tained chimpanzees "Herbert H," "Becky," "Darby," "Joan" & friends were infected with sputum from the throats of whooping Baltimore children. Evidence indicated that the whooping-cough germ requires a virus to lead the way into the air passages before the disease breaks out. That virus seemed to be the same virus implicated in the common cold...
Palm Springs (Walter Wanger) is an attempt to commercialize the publicity which fan magazines and travel agencies have lavished on a colony of luxury hotels perched on the rim of an extinct volcano in the desert 125 miles from Los Angeles. The narrative concerns the efforts of Joan Smyth (Frances Langford) to snare a rich husband (David Xiven) in order to repay her father (Sir Guy Standing) for his sacrifices in earning a living as a gambler to provide her with the luxuries of a fashionable school. She ends by marrying Slim (Smith Ballew), owner of a dude ranch...
...Would you rather have your children more interested," inquired Trustee Drinker, "in the love life of marmots, magpies and mosquitoes than in the love life of Joan Crawford and Clark Gable? If you help us get this money . . . we will have your children so interested in the love life of birds, bats and begonias that they will forget all about Joan and the rest of the movie stars. Instead of the movie magazines, you will find the publications of the Academy on their reading tables...
...component parts, the production of Shaw's "Saint Joan" which Katharine Cornell is now displaying at the Opera House commands designation as the climax of a long and varied theatrical season. A superbly talented cast has been welded into an almost flawless presentation of a spectacularly brilliant, mordantly witty and powerfully moving play...
Quite naturally Miss Cornell's interpretation of the maid Joan occupies the center of attention and, as always, her acting is profoundly mature and thoroughly compelling if somewhat stylized. The supporting cast is so uniformly excellent as to defy any graduation of honors. Maurice Evans portrays the incapable weakling Dauphin with a skill that renders the character quite lovable. John Emery has taken over Brian Aherne's part as the swaggering very English Earl of Warwick and does it quite as well as did the estimable Mr. Aherne. Eduardo Ciannelli as the Bishop of Beauvais, Charles Waldron as the senior...