Word: pennington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heralded by this pat and pleasant show-title, Miss Ann Pennington once more recommends herself to a Harvard following. If spontaneity is one's criterion, as it is the Playgoer's, she is the whole show. The years have not taken away the sparkle of that diminutive dancing figure. She still can hold the attention against all the cast around her. One scene in particular comes to mind, where Miss Pennington, elevated above the other figures of the ensemble, is revealed by the rising curtain in a dimly-lighted setting of red, black, and purple. Slow music, with the drums...
John Boyle, New York producer, has again been engaged to direct the play. Boyle, who has worked with Jack Donahue, Ann Pennington, and Marilyn Mille", was largely responsible for the staging of the last two Hasty Pudding theatricals. Boyle will be assisted by Dr. Theodore Spencer, a member of the English department, who is revising the book and music. Dr. Spencer is a member of the Princeton Triangle Club and the Marlowe Society of Oxford University, England...
...PENNINGTON-Francis Brett Young-Harper ($2.50). Though Author Young might be horrified at the comparison, Mr. and Mrs. Pennington may remind you of Authoress Vina Delmar's best-selling Bad Girl. Like Bad Girl, it is a circumstantial story of middle-class domesticity, its falls and rises. But Author Young, Bachelor of Medicine, has not been so obstetrical as Authoress Delmar, mother. His scene too is larger, peopled by more characters. Whereas Bad Girl was a tempest in a flat, Mr. and Mrs. Pennington is heading straight for tragedy when Author Young's magic wand stops it, just...
Susan was an orphan, living with her respectable but impoverished uncle and aunt. She was pretty, had imbibed some principles, evolved no real convictions. When she met Dick Pennington, an ordinary, decent, motor-bike-riding young clerk who had been to a third-rate "public school" (U. S.: private), their attraction was mutual and sudden. They married, on very little a week, soon moved into a jerrybuilt bungalow they could not really afford. Then things began to happen. Susan, to her dismay, found she was going to have a baby. Dick lost his job. Payments on the furniture, the rent...
...Pennington is the January choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...