Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning of World War II the family owned some 180,000 acres, Chatsworth House, Hardwick Hall, Bolton Abbey, Compton Place, Lismore Castle in Ireland and a town house in Carlton Gardens (now a heap of blitzed rubble). The Cavendishes rank well up among the "twelve families that own England." Their coat of arms: sable, three bucks' heads cabossed argent with a crest of a serpent nowed proper and two bucks, each wreathed round the neck with a chaplet of roses, argent and azure, as supporters. The Cavendish motto: Cavendo Tutus, Secure by Caution...
...Western World" has given the role of Michael James to William Dubey, V-12, secretary of the HDC. Timothy Manley, V-12, is now playing the part that Dubey had formerly been listed for. The play is directed by Mrs. Mark Howe, who was once with the Abbey Players in Dublin...
...Sheet." Back in 1914 a tiny (5 ft. 3 in.), easygoing Irish civil servant named William Joseph Shields stood on the stage of Dublin's great Abbey Theatre, quakingly ready to deliver himself of his first speaking role. It was brief. The play was Sheridan's The Critic and his entire role, as "2nd Sentry," was to meet the cue "All this shall to Lord Burley's ear" with a yes-man's " 'Tis meet it should." Just before the cue, the malicious actor next him whispered, and the terrified Mr. Shields repeated, loud & clear...
...years Fitzgerald acted only part-time, working part-time, too, as a "nominal" student at the Abbey. Gradually he got more important roles and a deeper interest in them; at last he quit his civil service desk for good. His first full-time professional appearance was in The Silver Tassie, in 1929. His friend Sean O'Casey wrote it especially...
...Abbey Theatre has never stultified itself with a starring system; if it had, Fitzgerald and Sara Allgood would undoubtedly have been headliners. When the Players toured the U.S. in 1934, a passel of critics and actors gave Fitzgerald a scroll calling him "the most versatile character comedian in the world today." A lot of reputable people still refer to him, automatically, as the finest living actor...