Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winnifred Lenighan, the first woman ever to portray St. Joan, will again fill the little role in Shaw's tragedy next term when the Theater Workshop gives a reading of the famous play...
...actress, who played Joan at the 1924 New York opening, has told the HTW that she would like to read the play with them when she arrives in Boston later this year...
...Workshop's production of "St. Joan" last spring was one of the most successful plays over given at the College. Its five-day run, according to reviews, produced "some of the finest acting and most superb staging ever seen on the Sanders stage and probably anywhere in the vicinity of Harvard...
Charles Chaplin felt the pinch of inflation. A Los Angeles court took notice of the cost-of-living increase, ordered him to pay an extra $25 a week for the support of Carol Ann, his four-year-old daughter by ex-protégée Joan Berry. That meant $100 every week, instead...
Laid in San Francisco in 1896, Strange Bedfellows tells what happens when the son (John Archer) of a Senator who is apoplectically opposed to votes for women marries a beautiful and unbudgeable suffragette (Joan Tetzel). The suffragette, finding all the men in her new family just as unbudging, makes converts, and then confederates, of the womenfolk. The wives, remembering Aristophanes' bawdy Lysistrata, stage a sex strike and bolt their doors. The husbands, remembering San Francisco's bordello-lined Barbary Coast, toss off some drinks and bolt the house. After an act of shenanigans, the two parties trade concessions...