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Word: bolton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theatre (adapted from W. Somerset Maugham's novel by Guy Bolton & Mr. Maugham; produced by John Golden) is a half-brittle, half-gooey tale of a glittering English stage couple who seem to the public like Darby & Joan, behave in private more like Don Juan and Jezebel. The first half-in Maugham's typical drawing-room style-is a faintly nasty account of their infidelities, so carefully underlined that for a while it looks as if Theatre will be all smirk and no play. When the well of adultery runs dry, the authors rush with their buckets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old & New Plays in Manhattan | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...name of a U.S. musicomedy which Prime Minister Winston Churchill recalls with considerable pleasure. It is also the title of the hit song of the show-a 1924 Broadway show that had everything: music (some of his best) by George Gershwin; lyrics by his brother Ira; book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson; and the dancing Astaires (Fred and Adele...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 29, 1941 | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...face appeared in Congress last week-and a pretty one. Katharine Edgar Byron was the fifth Congressional widow to take her seat in the 77th Congress. (Altogether, nine Congressmen wear skirts.) Unlike her distinguished widowed colleagues, Senator Hattie Caraway, Representatives Margaret Smith, Frances Bolton, Mrs. Byron did not slide easily into her late husband's place. She won it the hard way-by licking a veteran, C.I.0.-backed opponent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Widow's Might | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...sixth and last production for a season which is fading faster than the trees are taking on their summer wardrobe in the Yard, the Theatre Guild brings a new play by a new writing team. "Theatre," first issue from the literary marriage of Somerset Maugham and Guy Bolton, is handicapped by a plot as unimaginative as its title; but the old theme of the married stage celebrities who separate, have several affairs and reunite, is so literally enlivened with the authors' racy wit, that Bostonians will not hurry to forsake their seats for the beaches...

Author: By R. C. H., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 5/2/1941 | See Source »

...huge, 15 inch silver gilt bowl, made by Thomas Bolton, is in one of the cases. Its inscription reads. "The gift of the Honourable City of Dublin to Capt. George Sanders, commander of Her Majesty's ship Seaforth, for his signal services in taking two French privateers, being the first that were brought into this harbour this war. Anno...

Author: By Dana Reed, | Title: Art Exhibit Depicting Ireland's History Lent to Fogg Museum | 2/4/1941 | See Source »

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