Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week gabby old George Bernard Shaw tripped through the U. S. Southwest leaving columns of commonplace impertinences in his wake. Simultaneously a 13-year-old Shavian masterwork made thrilling news for Manhattan playgoers when Katharine Cornell revived Saint Joan...
Providing one of the specialty numbers in this year's Skating Club Carnival which opened last night and continues this afternoon and tonight at the Arena are M. Bernard Fox '38 and Miss Joan Tozzer, daughter of Alfred M. Tozzer '00, professor of Anthropology...
...docket of the French Court of Appeals came the case of U. S. Dancer Joan Warner, "Poetess of Naked Rhythm," who was found guilty of "publicly outraging modesty" by dancing in a respectable Paris restaurant in blue powder and a gossamer cache-sexe (TIME, July 29 et ante). The court reaffirmed Poetess Warner's fine of 50 francs ($3.30), lowered the restaurant owner's fine from 250 to 50 francs. Carefully the judges pointed out that the ruling does not prevent Miss Warner from practicing her art in theatres and music halls...
...truthfully recorded that no one much cares that her acting is superficial, operatic, and unconvincing. She plays the role of the aristocratic Rosita Castro, a wisp of a girl who, under the pseudonym of Don Carlos, leads the vigilantes in their fight against the land-stealing Yankee foreigners. Like Joan of Arc, this murder-minded maiden defends her countrymen from their enemies. This is a very thrilling Wild West, made especially for grownups...
There is a long and arduous preparation for the entrance of the five. It is conducted by Joan Hersholt, giving us a Dr. Dafoe who struggles valiantly and gently for human life in every emergency, but can't remember to take the price tags off his clothes or buy his license to practice. What he needs above all is a hospital for his trusting charges, and it is the miraculous birth that comes as a providential means of answering his prayer. There are surly villians, too, and problems of love, but are automatically overthrown and solved, respectively, in the doctor...