Word: baxley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small fortune out of his books (The Good Companions; English Journey). He is likely to make another fortune from the stage on the strength of his discovery that a playwright can get by with a few unpretentious tricks and a couple of good characters. For the characters of Bernard Baxley and George Radfern in Laburnum Grove, Playwright Priestley may be forgiven almost any of his dramatic shortcomings. Bernard Baxley (Melville Cooper), late of Singapore ("a man's life!''), has hooded eyes, a wolfish gait, greying hair and a small paunch. Constantly engaged in a verbal scrimmage with...
...where all her family are buried. Georgia-born (1903) and bred, Authoress Miller got her schooling at Waycross High School, where she took more than an academic interest in English and in her English teacher (W. D. Miller), whom she married two months after graduation. Now she lives in Baxley, Ga., where her husband teaches school. She finds time to write while looking after a household that includes three small sons. Lamb in His Bosom is her first book...