Word: janes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Donn Casey, from Australia, cracked at his sister: "Jane's scared but I'm not." A barely audible "I'm not either" came over the air. Said Donn: "We send our love to you and to the boys and girls in Australia and to our Granny in Melbourne, Australia, who is listening for us. Hello, Granny-lots and lots of love from us and [Jane and Donn shouted together] a GREAT big kiss." Twelve-year-old Elizabeth Pirie, of the British Embassy, said solemnly: "To my young fellow countrymen in Great Britain...
...poets fail, the prosers have at least the virtues of detail and traction. Sir James Barrie, Edna Ferber, Bess Streeter Aldrich, Theodore Roosevelt, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, John Galsworthy, John Donne, Abraham Lincoln, Pearl Buck, Eve Curie and some score of others all contribute their tones of voice. Few of them have much of value to say, and only two of them-Donne and Curie-say it with any nobility; but at least they mesh with their material...
...Acquaintance," which brings Lady Jane Cowl and Peggy Wood to Boston in a pre-Broadway opening, is a diluted mixture of "The Women" and "The Animal Kingdom" without that certain something which made those two comedies successful. Its plot tells at great length how an aging litterateuse, Miss Cowl, loses her last paramour. How she could ever have caught one must be classed as a deus ex machina. Miss Wood is convincing as the feline crony...
...that the rest of the country might or might not go as Maine goes, but Maine would keep right on going its own way. One of the earliest men to settle there was Richard Nason who arrived in Kittery before 1639. Toward the end of the last century, Grandmother Jane Nason Tibbets used to take six-year-old Grandson Kenneth Roberts on her knee, tell him bedtime stories about Indian massacres-burning villages, murdered and mutilated men; women and little children trudging through the deep snow and the dark forests to Montreal while their captors, with scalps dangling and dripping...
...Marie Dressler's costume; villainized, kinky-haired Alan Hale plays the Wallace Beery part of Bullwinkle, Annie's rival. Like all good skates on the screen, Annie builds herself a heap of trouble before she rescues the mortgage and gets the young folks (Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman) together for a happy ending. The result is passable, not irresistible...