Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appearing in their first production of the season, members of the Harvard Dramatic Club, assisted by the Radcliffe Idler Society, will give "Charles and Mary" by Joan Temple as their annual winter production. The first performance of this play is tonight at 8.20 o'clock in Brattle Hall, and it will be given tomorrow and Friday night also at the same time and place. All three presentations will be followed by dancing until 1 o'clock...
...outright burglary-the theft of the diamond bracelet-finally has bad consequences. Detectives corner him in his rooms, chase him down a street in automobiles, shoot him with a machine gun. He is last seen in jail, making sentimental overtures to his blonde partner (Joan Blondell...
...left Columbia University to be a chorus boy. From this traditionally effeminate occupation, he presently was graduated to vaudeville, musical comedy (Grand Street Follies)., legitimate plays (Women Go on Forever and Outside Looking In for which he was selected because he had red hair). His 1930 performance, opposite Joan Blondell, in Penny Arcade, got him to Hollywood, which, since talkies, has been the final up-step for an actor's progress. Noted for his impersonations of unscrupulous and philandering heroes, he is less airy when out of the camera's eye. Recently in a Hollywood cafe...
...tragedy of Charles Lamb's life, torn between devotion for his sister and for a neighbor, Hester Savory, is being directed by Edward Massey '15, a former student of the 47 Workshop. Mr. Massey has coached the Club in three recent plays, and finds, in this play of Joan Temple's abundant opportunity for picturesque scenery and period costumes, as well as for dramatic moments, and character portrayals of Lamb's literary contemporaries...
Possessed is calculated to have a more disastrous effect than most upon morally malleable persons who witness it. Joan Crawford, again a brunette, impersonates the mistress of a thriving politician (Clark Gable). Rich, wilful and ingratiating, he gives her the trite benefits of illicit love-an apartment with glass doors, a maid-of-all-work, fine clothes, European travel and an education in social politeness. These make an unsophisticated admirer, when they meet again, mistake her for a lady. After three years of pleasurable intimacy, Gable is threatened by a scandal. His mistress has been ennobled by experience...