Word: moncrieff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Roerick, in the part of Algernon Moncrieff, a sort of prototype of Bertie Wooster, is a little too much the romantic lover and not enough of the playboy. Ainsworth Arnold supplies a refreshing blast of unctuous lechery as the Rev. Canon Chasuble...
After the meet, Moncrieff M. Cockrane, 165-pound wrestler, was elected captain of the team...
...cast is as follows: John Worthing, W. W. Birge '35; Algernon Moncrieff, E. A. Peterson '35; the Reverend Canon Chasuble, L. H. Eunis 4G: Merriman, the butler, L. vonB. Nichols '35; Lane, a manservant, D. V. McGranahan '35; Lady Brackmell, William Abbott 1L; Honorable Gwendolyn Fairfax, R. L. Cummings, Jr. '35; Cecily Cardew, T. M. Hastings '34; Miss Prism, F. F. Silver...
Translation of Proust's work into English was begun by able Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff in 1922. He carried on his job leisurely and well until death stopped him two years ago, with only one more volume to do. So pleased had critics been by his translation that Publishers Chatto & Windus looked high, low and carefully for a worthy successor, finally hit upon Author Stephen Hudson (A True Story). Hudson's version did not satisfy U. S. Publishers Boni, who chose Frederick A. Blossom, Ph. D., ex-professor at Johns Hopkins, to make the U. S. translation ?careful, sober...
...entered Montdidier (50 miles from Paris). "This circumstance was not favorable to the immediate success of the book." Author Bloch read the proofs of "-& Co." while in a hospital recovering from wounds. In 1925 he revised it; the English translation was made from this edition by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, translator of Marcel Proust's famed Remembrance of Things Past. Author Bloch lives in the country most of the year, likes to move about: on bicycles, motorcycles, automobiles, canal barges, his own feet. Catholic in his tastes, he likes opposites: society & solitude, struggle & peace, traveling & tranquillity. Says...