Word: sherriff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...First Mrs. Eraser by limping St. John Ervine (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...
Last week was memorable for 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...
London papers carried a business announcement last week of the formation of a new corporation, to be known as R. C. Sherriff Ltd. "to acquire the copyright of all and any existing and future literary, dramatic, and artistic works of R. C. Sherriff and to carry on the business of publishers and booksellers." Capital: $5,000. Directors: R. C. Sherriff, Mrs. Sherriff, E. Tudor Mash...
...Thomas Alva Edison headed the staff appointed last week by the Fort Myers, Fla., Women's Community Club to publish an issue of the Tropical News. She wrote editorials: extolled Adolph Simon Ochs (New York Times), flayed handshaking as too hard on President Hoover, attacked billboards. Robert Cedric Sherriff, London insurance broker, amateur playwright of super-successful Journey's End (TIME, April 1), announced last week he was writing a play about the antarctic death (1912) of Explorer Robert Falcon Scott...
...town's most recent arrivals is already most sought after of the show shop amusements. "Journey's End", by a young English insurance adjuster, R. C. Sherriff, is both the greatest war play ever written and the finest new drama seen on the New York stage this season. One set, a dug-out, suffices for the play which presents a group of Englishmen confronted with the single and terrible protagonist of the war and inevitable violent death. Their reactions, intensified to the last degree, make for scenes of heart-breaking dramatic beauty. Colin Keith Johnson establishes himself as a great...