Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...improvement over the stodgy stuff that BBC used to short wave to North America to be shared by Canada and the U. S. With swing bands and torch singers, brisk news and political comments, Britain Speaks (on every evening at 7:30 E.D.S.T.) is at its best when Novelist-Playwright John Boynton Priestley holds forth. Compact as a beer mug, with a voice as mellow as ancient ale, Priestley has a pronounced Yorkshire accent which falls more pleasantly on American ears than the nasal whinnys of Oxford...
...last week were: the Countess of Carnarvon, Vienna-born Dancer Tilly Losch; lean, stoop-shouldered Baron Edouard de Rothschild, retired head of the Paris branch of the international banking house (who declared over $1,000,000 in jewels to customs authorities), his wife and daughter; French Playwright Henri Bernstein; mystic Belgian Dramatist Count Maurice Maeterlinck, 77, his long white locks protected from the sea wind by a Göringesque hair net, his pretty, redheaded actress wife Renee, 45. Maeterlinck, who said he had nothing left but royalties from his play The Blue Bird, mourned: "I had my money...
...year in London and New York, the Second Mrs. Tanqueray inspired much pulpitation, was condemned by critics as unfit for mother, brother, sister or wife. Not for a couple of years was it generally admitted that the Second Mrs. Tanqueray had made Pinero England's top-flight problem playwright...
...Said Playwright George Bernard Shaw, still talking constantly at 83, "I've always advised people not to arouse the English, because once aroused they're capable of more heroism and more atrocities than anyone else...
Throughout most of this fiscal backing and filling Davis was busy practicing his theosophic belief that because Divine Providence had led him to money it was his holy duty to spend it. In 1926 he backed a Broadway play, The Ladder, for an old playwright schoolmate. Believing in its theme of reincarnation. Angel Davis stubbornly kept the play (a flop) going for two years, eventually admitted the public free. The whim cost him a cool $1,300,000 before he had had enough. Going back to Texas to drill for more oil, he watched the last of his capital disappear...