Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ignored by the British editors of Who's Who is Mr. Sidney W. Pascall. The editors are wrong, for Mr. Sidney W. Pascall is a potent international figure, first European President of Rotary International. Last week Rotarian Pascall sailed from Southampton with his wife and Daughter Joan for a triumphal tour of the world. Only a few days before he had returned to Britain from a 15,000-mile tour of the Rotary Clubs of the U. S. "I was treated like a reigning monarch," said he, "and each Rotary Club I went to gave me something to remember...
...economist and director of the Bank of England; and Frances D. Bosworth, cousin of Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes. Married. Lawrence Mervil Tibbett, cinema baritone, onetime member of the Metropolitan Opera Company; and Mrs. Jennie Marston Burgard of Burlingame, Calif.; in Manhattan. It was his second marriage, her third. Married, Joan Hamilton, stepdaughter of Cosmo Hamilton, author, playwright; and Roger de la Vasselais of Manhattan; in Manhattan. Married, John A. Roebling, 68, only son of the late great Engineer Washington Augustus Roebling (Brooklyn Bridge); and one Helen Price, 41; at Rochester, N. Y. Seeking Divorce, Nadjeda de Braganza Dorozynski, daughter...
...Engaged. Joan Bennett, 20, film actress; and Gene Markey, 36, scenarist and writer...
...British shipwrights thrown out of work at John Brown & Co.'s Clydebank yards fortnight ago when Cunard stopped construction went back to work last week. Having voted their determination, the Cunard Board had next to look for money. Said Sir Percy: "Patriotic offers of a public Joan will not be overlooked. . . . There are other possibilities...
...Charles and Mary," Joan Temple's play based on the life of the Lambs, the Harvard Dramatic Club made a felicitous choice for their fall production. The play, progressing evenly from beginning to end, is dramatic more by suggestion and implication than by action. Save for the first act which starts at a fountain-head of irritation, and streams along until the floodgates burst and matricide results, the force of the piece is derived from the pathetic circumstances which inextricably bound the lives of the essayist and his demented sister...