Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the advent of "Doctor's Wives" the star of the ornamental Miss Joan Bennett becomes more securely fixed than ever in the cinema heaven. Although those who see her in her present vehicle at the Met may forget that she plays her role deftly and sincerely, they can never forget her beauty. She moves through the picture with a sort of child-like wonder written on her face; she strings a "line" beside which all other feminine wiles pale into insignificance; she speaks in a voice of a quality rarely found in the young actresses of today...
...three large sheets of parchment Dr. Albert Einstein had written a summary of his relativity theory to date. An anonymous donor bought it, valued at $25,000, presented it to Yale University. The presentation was formal, with Dr. Einstein present, at the Manhattan bookshop run by Mrs. Joan Whitney Payson, daughter of the late Sportsman-tycoon Payne Whitney, and Mrs. Josephine Dodge Kimball, daughter of Marshall J. Dodge. Dr. Einstein forthwith sailed on the Deutschland for Germany...
Paid (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Except for its concluding intricacies, worked out along lines immemorially established for stage police departments and district attorneys' offices, Paid is an effective program piece. It is Bayard Veiller's old play, Within the Law, modernized by Charles MacArthur as a vehicle for Joan Crawford. For some reason, principally because of her success in party-pictures and because there are already more than enough emotional actresses in the picture business, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has shown some reluctance in letting Joan Crawford play straight parts. This policy is puzzling because she can hold...
President Hoover had an opportunity last week to bring into play his intense interest in child welfare and happiness. Not since the romping Roosevelts has the White House had such a Christmas celebration as was given the Hoover grandchildren-Peggy Anne, 4, Herbert III, 3, Joan, six months. No one worked harder for their good time than Grandfather Hoover. On Christmas Eve when President Hoover returned to the White House from Sherman Square where he had lighted Washington's community tree and broadcast a 37-word holiday greeting to the land, there was a dinner for the children...
...cameramen, asked the children what they wanted for Christmas. Herbert III listed his desires: a policeman's uniform, badge and club, a wagon and a "train engine-a big one." Peggy Anne wanted "a very big doll," several smaller ones and a wagon. Their six-month-old sister Joan, who had arrived in Washington in the arms of Nursemaid Florence Gehlke (see cut) was not brought out of the White House to express her Christmas wants...