Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Westminster. Twice in the past month Dean Norris, whose hobby is art and who has a nice talent in painting, emerged from the shadow of the Empire's shrine into the spotlight of world news. When a petition was started to give the late great John Galsworthy an Abbey burial Dean Norris was "forced regretfully to decline." Unofficial reason given was lack of space. Last week came to light a speech by Dr. Norris before the Architectural Association in which the artist-dean advocated clearing most of the present memorials out of the Abbey and storing them somewhere...
...Divine Providence was at that moment bringing Jane Austen into the world. She appears in person on the stage at the age of 23. No one in the audience would realize it, but according to her historians she had already written Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, was busy with Northanger Abbey. As impersonated by Actress Josephine Hutchinson, Jane was the flirtatious, giggling belle of Bath, busy discarding suitors right & left...
Last week the Abbey Theatre Players, who began their second U. S. tour since 1914 in Manhattan fortnight ago (TIME, Oct. 31), had an important little play called The Words Upon The Window Pane to introduce to the U. S. Scene is in a spiritualist seance where a sleazy medium calls upon her control, "Little Lulu," to bring tidings from the beyond for her customers. Suddenly there is a babble of tongues in the medium's mouth. The spirit of Jonathan Swift, no less, is deranging communication between Ireland and the astral shores. All the customers save a young...
...Author! We want the author!" cried the Abbey Players' audience. They got him. As the curtain fell on his one-act play, famed William Butler Yeats, 67, a portly, grey-haired gentleman, stepped upon the stage. Then one great Irishman spoke briefly about another. The spirit of Swift, Poet-Senator Yeats explained, still broods over the Emerald Isle. The tragedy and wisdom of Swift permeate, he feels, the Irish character. That was what he had tried to get at in his play. He thanked one & all for their attention, left the theatre as the curtain rose on Synge...
...Abbey Theatre was opened in 1904 by Miss Annie Elizabeth Fredericka Horniman, onetime private secretary to Poet-Senator William Butler Yeats, for the Irish National Theatre Society. The organization was founded in 1899 through the efforts of Yeats, Lady Gregory and others, to make the world aware of a rebirth of Irish letters. The roster of playwrights who have worked and still work for the Theatre is a literary honor roll: Yeats, Synge, Lady Gregory, AE (George William Russell), Sean O'Casey, George Shiels, Lennox Robinson. And many an Irish Player has left home to make good...