Word: joans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Born. To Beatrice Ferguson Snipes, 29, Columbia (S. C.) murderess whose death sentence was commuted last fortnight to life imprisonment; a daughter. Weight: / Ib. Name: Frances Joan Snipes. The judge: "The child, of course, is not sentenced to the penitentiary." The hospital: "What to do with the baby is the penitentiary's problem, not ours...
Among the fingerpainters at last week's exhibition were Composer Deems Taylor's six-year-old daughter Joan, and six-year-old Tanya Bogoslovsky, daughter of Educator Boris Bogoslovsky. Artist Bogoslovsky's creation, a thing like a jungle of twisted vines, inspired her to her first poem, which was attached to the picture: There is a man lost in the dark woods. I keep finding him and finding him But he goes again behind the dark trees- Again and again...
...other equally important questions of deportment that Emily Post passed by. It takes some 17 corpses, an armored car with no end of gangsters, a lunatic, and a number of amiable and stupid minions of the law, but the answers are all there in the end. And so are Joan Blondell, the wise little girl from Three Rivers, Illinois, and Wallace Ford, the rip-roaring cow-puncher from Peach Springs, Arizona, in each other's arms. It's very sweet, and all so terribly exciting. The horrid audience just would insist on laughing the rude things...
...casting of The Son-Daughter, originally listed as a Joan Crawford picture, sounds like a triumph of mismanagement but it works out surprisingly well. Helen Hayes has to struggle a little with her role as Lien Wha but she manages to give it pathos and simplicity. Tom Lee is Ramon Novarro with his sideburns shaved off far above his ears. The rest of a strikingly Caucasian cast plays in the tradition for oriental melodrama-keeping the right hand in the left coat sleeve and saying little. Warner Oland as the Chinese gambler seems most at home in his surroundings...
Died. Mary Joan Gibson, 12-day-old child of Sidney Herbert Homewood, the Tappan (N. Y.) ridingmaster jailed last month for seducing Socialite Charlotte Ariel Gibson (TIME, Dec. 19) ; of bleeding at the navel; in Tappan...