Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Eric Martin-Smith, 22, Cambridge student, new British amateur golf champion (TIME, June i); and Joan Surtees, great-granddaughter of Robert Smith Surtees, oldtime sporting novelist (Jar-rocks's Jaunts & Jollities, Handley Cross...
Laughing Sinners was started six months ago, later scrapped and remade. As a result Joan Crawford, whose duty it is to portray the indecisions of the salesman's playmate, appears as a brunette in some sequences, a blonde in others. In almost all of them she acts well and makes her dilemma seem both plausible and pathetic. Actor Hamilton is a little too unctuous as the salesman. Actor Gable, hitherto an impersonator of hard-boiled characters, seems slightly puzzled to find himself banging a Salvation Army drum...
...Rouen, three weeks ago, a girl named Juliette Brebant played the part of St. Joan of Arc in the 500th anniversary celebration of the Maid's martyrdom. Climax of the proceedings came when pious Mlle Brebant was bound to a stake and had Roman candles and Chinese fire set off about her feet. In a high state of religious ecstasy, she fainted. Last week in a Paris hospital she was still delirious. Doctors despaired of her life...
Constance, eldest Bennett daughter, married and divorced Millionheir Philip Plant, became a Pathe cinema star, was recently borrowed by Warner Brothers at the largest salary ($300,000 for ten weeks) ever paid a cinemactress. Joan, youngest daughter, acted on the Manhattan stage in Jarnegan, was selected by John Barrymore as his leading woman in Moby Dick (TIME...
Central Square--William Powell in "Man of the World", and "Doctor's Wives", featuring Warner Baxter and Joan Bennett...