Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least of those who saw "The Playboy of the Western World" as it was produced by the Abbey Players during the past two weeks, do not quarrel with the verdict. Boston will not soon have the pleasure of seeing as great a play as greatly acted. Those who saw it not, or seeing, did not see, are the more to be pitied. Let them hearken to Professor Murray in Harvard 6 today at eleven o'clock and know at least what they missed...
Died, Lord William Henry John North, 95, foxhunter. oldest British peer, great-grandson of George Ill's Prime Minister during the American Revolution; of old age; in his home, Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire, England. Last surviving godchild of Queen Adelaide, consort to William IV, Lord North branched from the same stem as Theodore Roosevelt, who once, on a ranch in North Dakota, rescued Lord North's son when his horse fell into a gully...
...success and merit of the present day American theatre is due strangely enough to the influence of the Irish stage," declared Lennox Robinson, director of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin in an interview last night. Mr. Robinson is making a tour of the United States with the entire company of the Abbey Theatre, and is now engaged for two weeks in Boston, giving a large repertoire of pieces including the works of Synge, Yeats, and Lady Gregory...
Lennox Robinson, Director of the Abbey Theatre Irish Players, now appearing in Boston, will speak under the auspices of the Dramatic Club in Harvard 6 tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The subject of his talk, which is open to all students of Harvard and Radcliffe, will be "The Irish Dramatists," and will include discussions of Lady Gregory, William Butler Yeats, Walter Starkie, and J. M. Synge...
...Robinson is best known for his work as an actor, producer, and director, and was one of the first sponsors of the Abbey Theatre at Dublin, "the mother of the Little Theatre movement...