Word: vane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...QUEST OF YOUTH-Jeffery Farnol-Little Brown ($2.50). Sir Marmaduke Anthony Ashley John de la Pole Vane-Temperly not unnaturally grows tired of a solitude broken only by hearing his faithful servant John Hobbs speak his name in a respectful whisper through the corridors of a big mansion. In Hessian boots and quest of youth, he ventures over the blood-and-thunderous landscape on which he finds, among other adventures, his wife who had left him 20 years before and Eve-Ann Ash, the girl he kisses on the last page. This is after Jasper Shrig, detective, has made sure...
Should onetime Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois be inclined to grasp at straw votes, he might be pleased and proud at the indications of the first such political weather-vane reported in the 1927-28 campaign...
...match and he won. Jay Gould returned to the U. S., entered Columbia, was elected captain of the freshman track team, led his class to triumph over the sophomores in the annual class rush, waited on table and shined shoes (as an initiation rite). In 1907 he beat Vane H. Fennel for the right to play Mills again, and after one of the hardest court tennis matches ever played in England (it lasted two and a half hours) he won the world title, five sets to three. Mills said that he had lost because of cramps. From that...
...similar fate. They too have the grand vellum of Broadway about them for a time until, eclipsed by newer rivals, they are forced to the cheap paper covers of the world of stock. Such a play is "Outward Bound". Other attempts at histrionic ethics and metaphysics have sent Sutton Vane's play into the limbo of provincial stock productions. So his philosophy of rat trap existence, a philosophy which saw nothing in heaven or hell but the doubtful happiness of "carrying on"--and "There's no discharge in the war," now suffers the vapid appreciation of stock audiences...
...program, "Now they are all dead, and we know they are all dead, we can laugh at the funny places." And the funny places are the crude places. Only the occasional eye notices the delicate nuances of character, wishes to notice them. Yet it is for such that Sutton Vane wrote his play--and it is for such that the Copley players are producing it. So one must credit them with a task, verging on the impossible--a task so often ably executed that one has moments of believing the impossible has been attained--and by a stock company...