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Word: joans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theatre (adapted from W. Somerset Maugham's novel by Guy Bolton & Mr. Maugham; produced by John Golden) is a half-brittle, half-gooey tale of a glittering English stage couple who seem to the public like Darby & Joan, behave in private more like Don Juan and Jezebel. The first half-in Maugham's typical drawing-room style-is a faintly nasty account of their infidelities, so carefully underlined that for a while it looks as if Theatre will be all smirk and no play. When the well of adultery runs dry, the authors rush with their buckets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old & New Plays in Manhattan | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

This squashy failure by the squash-shaped master of intricate melodrama (The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Rebecca) can perhaps be attributed to RKO's box-officiousness; Suspicion's principals (Gary Grant and Joan Fontaine) must be kept alive and kicking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 17, 1941 | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

Name. In Jersey City, Michael, Helen, Joan, Joseph, Walter, Sophia and John Rozmyslaws won permission to change their name to Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 3, 1941 | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

Princeton runners will include Captain Maurice Rehm, Ruloff Kip, Ed. Bragdon, Frank Carolan, Ed Esstier, Joe Quay Tom Whitin, Don Jordan, Joan De Champion and Pete Funk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDERDOG HARRIERS TO FACE ELIS, TIGERS IN TRIANGULAR | 10/31/1941 | See Source »

Married. Cinemactor Franchot Tone, 36, ex-husband of Joan Crawford; and Cinemactress Jean Wallace (Walasek), 18, Hollywood newcomer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 27, 1941 | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

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