Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago, when reputations were being rescaled for sound pictures, it appeared that Cinemactress Garbo was losing ground to several rivals?Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Ruth Chatterton. It is now clear that, in a sense, she has no rivals. The fact that she has made comparatively few pictures for the last two years has helped her to retain an independent popularity, to thrive on the flattery of imitation. Once a soaper of chins in a Stockholm barbershop, she has already selected the island near Stockholm where she will live when retired from cinemacting. Her contract expires next year and Cinemactress...
...guest rooms, directs households, antagonizes servants, soon becomes mistress of any house in which she lives. Hints that she leave she studiously ignores; when told she must go, she breaks down and cries. Mrs. Fairley got rid of her by dying, Mrs. Martin (Beverly Sitgreaves) by leaving, Janet Simms (Joan Kenyon) by foisting her off on an unsuspecting friend, after Aunt Lottie had driven Bill Simms (Otto Hulett) first to South America and then...
...Charles and Mary", one of the plays under discussion by Joan Temple, well known English writer, is based on the life of Charles and Mary Lamb. This play was for a long time popular in London. "Danton's Death", by George Buechner, has been done in German in New York by the Max Reinhardt players but has never been given in English. "Wozzeck", another production of the same author, has been presented in this country as a grand opera, but never as a drama. "The Chaulk Circle" is an oriental fantasy which has enjoyed great success in Germany under...
...Alan Seeger, Journalists Walter Lippmann, Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, the late Radical John Reed. Few graduates stick to their undergraduate determination to be a man of letters: Aiken did. Last year, after reaping the Pulitzer Prize for his Selected Poems, he took his wife and three children (John, Jane, Joan) to live permanently in England. Nearsighted, silent, excruciatingly shy, Conrad Aiken is a serious, hard-working poet who occasionally ventures into prose. To a fellow-passenger on a liner who asked Aiken: "What's your line?" he replied: "Blank verse!" Aiken's ambition is to write "a sort...
...built into reasonably inoffensive entertainment, unmarred by the ineptitudes which can make bad plays atrocities. There is nothing distinguished about This Modem Age but, like a medium-priced sedan, it runs rapidly and smoothly along, an inconspicuous mechanical marvel which disgraces no one and will probably make a profit. Joan Crawford's new haircut, which gives the effect of a pale overgrown hedge straggling down the back of her neck, is not as unbecoming as it sounds. Good shots: Joan Crawford and Neil Hamilton (the fiance) dislodging a china vase and waiting for it to crash while it falls...