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...Lonsdale is the man responsible for carrying the Austerity Program over into the field of comedy. Although he has written an occasional witty line, the ushers at the Shubert will probably be yawning for the better part of two weeks. Lonsdale's story is the old one about a penniless but aristocratic British family and a beautiful American girl who happens to be a millionaires. An excellent cast, headed by Melville Cooper and Ralph Michael, gets every drop of humor out of an essentially dull play...
Hole in the Bucket. When he was eleven, his father died of tuberculosis, leaving the family penniless. His mother brought Robert and his sister (two years younger) back to New England. Grandfather Frost, an overseer in a Lawrence, Mass, woolen mill, received them without enthusiasm. "We were the hole in the bucket," says Frost. His mother went to work teaching school, and young Robert trudged to high school in his grandfather's cut-down suit. He worked in the mills, nailed shoes, helped farmers. He began to read Latin and Greek avidly, wrote his first poem (in blank verse...
Explains Australian Author George Johnston, who wrote High Valley in collaboration with his wife: "I was the journalist who supplied the substance. She was the artist who supplied the burnish." Journalist Johnston's substance is the old story of the penniless youth who falls in love with the headman's daughter ("She has the eyes of a gazelle, he thought"), only to find that his suit is hopeless be cause she has been betrothed since child hood. To make matters worse, a tithe-collecting lama visits the valley and de mands a night with gazelle-eyed Veshti...
...father about it. With remarkable firmness for a girl of that time, she early refused to marry her father's candidate for her hand; later she missed a shot at a prayer-reading super-respectable Colonel Dig-by; finally at 41 she had enough gumption to marry an almost penniless French emigre. She was a strange mixture of the prudise and the unconventional, though admittedly far more of the former...
Christmas present from the company." This was the trolleymen's way of warning their employers that they were deadly serious in their demand for a 50?-a-day wage increase. The employers were deadly serious, too. After four days of free rides for the populace, during which penniless coolies sprawled delightedly about the upper decks (first class), the management sacked the conductors, halted service...