Word: yorkshireman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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London. Early this year beef-eating Yorkshireman John Boynton Priestley, author of best-selling novels (The Good Companions, Angel Pavement), several U. S. stage flops, one hit (Dangerous Corner), stood up to the almighty British Broadcasting Corp., calling it monopolistic and its programs a bore. Fortnight ago BBC commissioned a novel for serial broadcasting, 20 minutes every Sunday. Commissioned novelist: J. B. Priestley. The radio novel, Let the People Sing, was reported to be another cross-sectioning of British life like The Good Companions...
Sylvia Russell, the captain's wife, in this sharply competent book, hated her daughter Hervey's easy-mannered husband because he was without character, "the most damning thing a Yorkshireman can say about man or woman." This leisurely, detailed portrait of Sylvia's married life shows that she herself, like a good Jameson heroine, had enough for six. She eloped with one of her shipowning mother's captains, stubbornly refused to patch the break even when it meant stinting her children, kept moving from house to house in windy Danesacre (Author Jameson's native Whitby...
Eastwood, a lean, soldierly Yorkshireman of 53, who was elected last March after experience as a Liverpool bobby, promised to hand out "legitimate" news at daily conferences. Only other officers authorized to deal with newspapermen were Chief James E. Dew, whose bright red handlebar mustache has been nationally publicized on a Vox Pop radio program, and acting Inspector Sherman Lyons...
...childhood and its ending as I have ever read." Said Short-Story Anthologist Edward J. O'Brien: "The art form that Boccaccio invented is born again full-blown in America at last." Said Novelist Dan Wickenden: "We have been rolling about on the floor over The Flying Yorkshireman...
Less excitable readers found it easy to keep off the floor, catalogued The Flying Yorkshireman as consisting of: 1) a fantasy by Eric Knight about a man who discovered he could fly, amusing but stretched thin; 2) a sentimental story by Helen Hull about a dentist's wife who wins a $10,000 novel contest; 3) a realistic report on New Year's Eve in a flop house, by Albert Maltz; 4) a whimsy about a girl whose poetic sprightliness enchants a middle-aged doctor, by 24-year-old Rachel Maddux; 5) a sentimental reminiscence of childhood...