Word: struther
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what grounds does Poet T. S. Eliot rate less than four columns when Poet Stephen Vincent Benét rates nearly seven? It would be unkind, perhaps, to grudge Simeon Strunsky and Jan Struther nearly a column and a half apiece but would it not have been better to allow more room for Ernest Hemingway (one), E. M. Forster (4/5), Lytton Strachey (½) and a shade less to Editor Christopher Morley (four)? Similarly, 5¼ columns for Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay seem extravagant in a book that spares less than two to Leo Tolstoy, one column...
...with a new radio program of book reviews. Amateur Stone thought the idea of "just talking for 15 minutes" over Albany's 250-watt WABY sounded dull. Instead, he suggested that a group of people sit around and discuss books. One day Stone asked visiting Author Jan Struther, then lecturing in Albany, if she would join in the discussion of Mrs. Miniver. She did, the program clicked, and Variety gave it a good review...
...Struther, author of the best-selling Mrs. Miniver (whose cinema version broke all records last week by starting its seventh week at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall), received word that her husband, Lieut. Anthony Maxtone-Graham of the British army, had been captured in North Africa...
...film is less an adaptation of the bathetic whimsey which Essayist Jan Struther made into a best-seller than it is a fresh screen play conceived by Producer Sidney Franklin and four writers around the original. It is played for keeps by an exceptionally good cast. There is scarcely an off-key performance in the picture. Outstanding is womanly Greer Garson's Mrs. Miniver. She had to be, and is, exactly right...
...past three troubled years, readers of London's thundering Times have been turning to read passages like this in the column where from time to time Mrs. Miniver, or her creator, Jan Struther, reports the small doings of herself and her household in London and Kent. This week, for the first time, U. S. readers could read the best of her pieces in book form. There were 36 of them, averaging eight pages in length. They took Mrs. Miniver and the people closest to her through the routines of the English seasons, left them waiting and wondering...