Word: ayrton
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...sharp attack by Mrs. Barbara Ayrton Gould on the Government's food policy, charging that it was devoted to traders' rather than consumers' interests and had led to scandalous maldistribution, failed to stir so much as a single response. Finally, by a heavy vote, the conference approved two vague, grandiose memorandums, one denouncing any idea of a negotiated peace, the other demanding the end of economic inequity after...
...producers gave it to their most expensive player, Mary Nash. She did what she could with it. The other girl, for whom the King of the Beggars wove his plot, was entrusted wisely to Violet Kemble Cooper, who made it easily the most important role of the play. Randal Ayrton, from London, played Hassan, conventionally, correctly, completely missing the weakness, the beauty, the humanity of the character. One actor who might have done the part justice is Dudley Digges...
...mother is Edith Ayrton Zangwill, daughter of a professor and herself an authoress. But I attended only elementary schools and am practically self-educated. Yet I became a teacher, and later a journalist. One of my early books was The Big Bow Mystery, written to prove that it is possible to concoct a detective story in which the criminal cannot be detected by the reader until the last chapter. But it is not typical of my work. I am known as the first interpreter of the London Ghetto. Children of the Ghetto, Jinny the Carrier and The Melting...
...never over-done. It is largely due to her efforts that the end of the second act leaves the audience in no small state of excitement and awaiting the final scene with interest and impatience. The part of the lugubrious Dr. Petch is admirably handled by Randle Ayrton, and Philip Desborough makes an effectively unwelcome lover of Ruby. Clara Sidney and Marie R. Burke deserve commendation as Mrs. Delgado and Mrs. Howland, respectively: the rest of the cast is adequate enough. In spite of its advanced theories, then, "One" is worth seeing,--first, because of its novelty, secondly because...