Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Producer Miller's first importation this year is Author Rattigan's first successful play of any year. It is buoyant, imponderably slight. Its setting is the living room of M. Maingot's villa in the south of France, whither a group of young Englishmen have come to learn French in preparation for the ''diplomatic'' and to have their lives complicated by a predatory lass, lithely represented by Penelope Dudley Ward. The play is joyously, if inexpertly, served by the younger characters of its cast (Philip Friend, Cyril Raymond, Hubert Gregg, Jacqueline Porel), Veterans...
...Author Rattigan is 25. Three years ago his diplomat father, Frank Rattigan, C. M. G., gave him a year in which to prove himself better suited for playwriting than for the diplomatic service. Son Terence wrote six plays, collected five rejection slips. In November 1935, two weeks before Tyro Rattigan's year was up, French Without Tears was accepted, staged last year in London where it is still running. Paramount Pictures bought the screen rights...
...inflation that has skyrocketed the value of John Steinbeck first editions, bibliophiles must turn to the classic rise in the price of calves' liver, once given away in most butcher shops, currently selling at 85? a Ib. Distributed free to Publisher Covici-Friede's friends last Christmas, Author Steinbeck's St. Katy the Virgin, a short story, is now quoted at $10. Published last fortnight in an edition limited to 699 autographed, de luxe copies, Novelist Steinbeck's latest work, The Red Pony, was quoted at $10 a copy, and no man knew where it would...
Malcolm R. Wilkey '40, author of the article on Japan, arrived in Nippon on August 26 and left for home on September 9. He had been on his way to Lignan University in China for a year of study. He is now back at Harvard, regularly enrolled...
...long book (627 pages), Andrew Jackson clips along because its subject had more surprises up his sleeve than other Presidents. Highly unpleasant surprises to many a contemporary, they were nevertheless marked by one characteristic on which all could agree: Jackson's luck. Author James makes hay with the evidence : Jackson's two landslide elections in the face of some of the most savage mud-slinging in U. S. politics; his lucky solution of the four-year Government crisis precipitated by his defense of the notorious black-eyed Peggy Eaton; his strong-armed solution to the problem of South...