Word: authority
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Frederick Roberts Rinehart, youngest (third) son of Author Mary Roberts Rinehart ("K," Bab-A Sub-Deb, Tish-); and Miss Elizabeth Sherwood; at Geneva...
...TIME, Nov. 18), the royal attention bent to two more plays, of ascending gravity. First The Middle Watch, a decorous farce of life in the British Navy by Major John Hay Beith; second, gripping Journey's End, by R. C. Sherriff, enthusiastically recommended by the Prince of Wales.* Author Sherriff was summoned to the Royal...
...Dramatist Sherriff. The evening following the King's visit to his play, the manuscript of Journey's End was put up at auction at the tenth Anniversary Dinner of the League of Nations Union, brought $7,500, highest price ever paid for the manuscript of a living author's first play...
...Reputedly the highest previous price paid for a living author's manuscript was $5,300, for Joseph Conrad's Almayer's Folly at the Quinn Sale in New York...
Richard Watts Jr., the author of the accompanying article, is the movie editor of the New York Herald Tribune. In this capacity he has gained for himself the reputation of being one of the country's leading screen critics. His close connection with the motion picture industry through the recent period of its change from silent to sound production makes him peculiarly suited for the task of tracing the trend of the "talkies...