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Word: rouverol (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action of the drama is set in a boys' military academy; the cast is centered about Richard Cromwell, of motion picture fame, and is supported by Edwin Philips, John Call, Jean Rouverol, Charles Dingle, Edward Andrews, Ethel Jackson, Gordon Nelson, and Vernon Crane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic Club Wouldn't Accept Undergraduate's Play, So Now He's Had it Produced on Broadway | 9/26/1936 | See Source »

Growing Pains (by Aurania Rouverol; producers, Arthur Lubin & Lee Shubert). To put flesh on this unremarkable play of adolescence, Producer-Director Lubin made news by rounding up a remarkable crew of adolescent semi-amateurs. He corralled Author John Erskine's daughter Anna, Actress Mary Eaton's little brother Charles. Also he got a pretty girl named Georgette McKee whose father works for the Guaranty Trust Co. and another named Jacqueline Rusling whose father keeps store in Bridgeport, and a dozen other youngsters between 15 and 18. Their stage job was to behave as they had behaved in real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 4, 1933 | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

...Author Rouverol (Skidding) has given the youngsters a funny, often callous play about two-dimensional adolescence, in the guaranteed tradition of Booth Tarkington. Present are the malapropisms ("hyperficial"), the big words for little feelings, the emotional roller-coasting from top to bottom to top again in a minute flat, adult poses and childish behavior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 4, 1933 | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

...patio living room of a house in northern California the boys tell Jean Rouverol that it is time she stopped trying to play with them. Four months later she is trying out high heels and inquiring why it is bad form to tell a boy outright she would like to see him. Junior Durkin, having grown rapidly out of the adolescent stage of wanting "a mother for my children," is captivated by a giggling siren. The Mclntyres give an ice cream and punch party at which both brother and sister find sex arduous. As "something outstanding" to attract his siren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 4, 1933 | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

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