Word: adelphi
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...flapper. Next came two costume parts (in Will Shakespeare and Casanova), two mistakes (The Way Things Happen, The Outsider), a scarlet misstep with David Belasco (Tiger Cats), and then Candida. George Bernard Shaw has never met Katharine Cornell. One look at her photograph, however, and the bearded sage of Adelphi Terrace pronounced her the best Candida who ever played the part...
...spirit of criticism but for the sake of correctness, may I comment on your use of the word "catty-corner" in TIME of Nov. 14: "Sir James [Barrie] lives ... on London's Adelphi Terrace catty-corner from George Bernard Shaw's former home." The proper spelling is "eater-corner" or less properly "cata-corner." The word implies the numeral four as does the word "cater-cousin," fourth cousin
...Louis where Nephew Milton Shubert is production manager of he Municipal Theatre, to Hollywood where they have potent friends; also eastward into Europe. Last week Brothers Lee & Jake sold out their interest in London's Associated Theatre Properties Inc. (operators of five important West End playhouses: the Apollo, Adelphi, Shaftesbury, Gaiety, His Majesty's) for a reputed price of $2,000,000-$1,000,000 in cash. Control of London's biggest theatre bloc is now in the hands of Sir Harold Augustus Wernher, son of a South African diamond tycoon. Already the owner...
...Author, John Middleton Murry, minor soul, has one claim to fame: he was the husband of the late Katherine Mansfield. Two years before her death in 1923, Murry left his job as editor of the London Nation & Athenaeum; later started a monthly magazine of his own, the Adelphi. In Son of Woman he says he founded the Adelphi purely as a vehicle for Lawrence, and expected that Lawrence would come back to England to edit it. One of the most unpopular literary men in England, Murry was the original of the cruelly pilloried Editor Burlap in Aldous Leonard Huxley...
Upshot of two and one-half hours of stimulating but sometimes diffuse conversation?for even the Sage of Adelphi Terrace can be unclear?is that the young lovers (Romney Brent and Peg Entwhistle) decide to risk it and become man and wife, and the one flesh...