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Jefferson Davis was written by John McGee, FTP regional director for the Southeast. In three acts and twelve scenes, this sombre pageant of the life of the Confederacy's first & only President unfolds with little liveliness but much discretion. Opening on the 75th anniversary of Davis' inaugural at Montgomery, the play's cast numbered 36 minor performers, including a grandniece of Davis named Winifred Davis Crawford, and Actor Guy Standing Jr. The son and namesake of the cinema's Sir Guy Standing had been put on FTP's payroll at the regular $23.86 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Double-Jeopardy | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

HARVARD '38 TUFTS '38 Stuart, cf. ss., Collier Sullivan, 3b. p., Roopinian Colwell, c. 3b., Galuska Allen, 1b. 1b., Parman Pope, lf. cf., McGee Roberts, ss. rf., Blanchard Knowlton, rf. 2b., Sylvestri Reardon, 2b. c., Vance Lee, p. lf., Judson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POWERFUL YEARLINGS MEET TUFTS FRESHMEN | 4/30/1935 | See Source »

...Children's Hour. Florence McGee as a poisonous little tattletale in a girls' boarding school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan, Mar. 18, 1935 | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

...Wright-Dobie School for girls goes little Mary Tilford (Florence McGee), granddaughter of the young institution's chief patroness. As poisonous a moppet as ever twisted a playmate's arm, Mary is a prodigal liar, an incorrigible marplot, the school's petted problem child. Punishment for her misdeeds arouses in her a persecution complex and a thirst to revenge herself on the Misses Wright & Dobie. Armed with information clandestinely gathered from Mlle de Maupin, Mary convinces her righteous grandmother that Miss Dobie is in love with Miss Wright, that she has witnessed grave misbehavior. The grandmother ruins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 3, 1934 | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

...shrewd Producer Shumlin (Grand Hotel) knows, plays about homosexuals or children seldom fail. To take the part of impish Mary he looked no farther than Miss McGee who had played in the U. S. stage version of Mädchen In Uniform. Miss McGee, who squeezes the last drop of perverse venom from her characterization, is a reed-slim actress of 23 who can pass on any stage for 13. Born of British parents in South Africa, she was taken to Canada when young, went to the University of Toronto. She has been trouping for four years, is thoroughly sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 3, 1934 | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

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