Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Romance with Head Cold. When The Blue Bird was produced in Paris, the author's eyes lingered on a lively girl who played the part of "Cold-in-the-Head." He took her home to the ancient Benedictine abbey near Rouen which he had bought as his residence. Eight years later, when Cold-in-the-Head was 27, the 57-year-old poet forsook Georgette and married her. They reconverted a huge gambling casino on a hillside overlooking Nice. There they settled down...
Denis Johnston, former director of the Abbey Theater in Dublin and currently director of drama at the British Broadcasting Corporation will round out the panel as representative of stage and radio dramatists...
...Hugh Diman, O.S.B., 85, founder and longtime headmaster of Rhode Island's famed St. George's (Episcopal) School and of Portsmouth Priory (Roman Catholic) School; after a heart attack; in Portsmouth, R.I. A onetime Episcopal clergyman, Father Diman joined the Catholic church at 54, entered a Benedictine abbey in Scotland, returned to the U.S. to found (in 1926) the School of St. Gregory the Great (Portsmouth Priory...
...innocent gaum O'Casey woke up with a bump to find that most people were clay after all. When his proletarian plays were staged by Dublin's Abbey Theater, many critics hissed maliciously and poets looked nervously the other way. Even pioneers, O'Casey discovered, fear public opinion; even democrats get a kick out of wearing striped pants and top hats; even noble esthetes enjoy walking with one foot in the gutter. Sean was shocked to find that stately, plump Oliver St. John Gogarty surreptitiously read whodunits ; that refined Lady Gregory reveled...
...last one. Consequently there are a couple of songs in which the chorus shouts loud hosannas for such things as Rockefeller Center, the subway system, Lord & Taylor (remember the dear dead days when everybody was singing songs about Macy's?), and, of course, Fifth Avenue. "From Dubuque to Westminster Abbey they want the Fifth Avenue Look," they chant. And there's the inevitable song about how lonely a fellow can be in this big town with all the people 'round. This one is followed by a ballet number on the same theme which employs every cliche of dance and plot...