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...time when theatre managers are soothing the world's troubled brow either with raucous comedies or lavish musicals, "Boyd's Shop" blows into the Copley Theatre like a clean wind. It is a simple play about simple people with all the home-grown philosophy that is bound to blossom in Ulster. But St. John Ervine has put no haloes around his country folk; no sickening sentimentality. Instead, in the clash of old and new in rural Ireland Ervine has found the same problems which thrive in the largest city. And far from being "small townish," his characters...
Lowell House will have two non-resid- ent members: Boyd T. Simmons and Harry T. Montogomery. Simmons, who was once a mechanic in an automobile factory during a sit-down strike, has covered most of the major Michigan automobile labor disputes for the Detroit News. Montgomery is a cable news editor of the Associated Press in New York
...Wilhelm and Emperor Franz Josef. His savage drawings were reprinted all over the U. S., ater were published in a book. The war over, Cartoonist Knott grew genial again, adopted a lanky, mustachioed character, 'Old Man Texas," based on a real Texan, he late James A. ("Uncle Jimmy") Boyd. Death came to Old Man Texas one day a year ago. Four days later, John Knott's ellow artist, Adolf Hitler, sent his troops torming into Poland. Last week Artist Knott, busy again at 61 lambasting the new overlord of Germany and Austria, proposed lending a hand...
...Harold Boyd France, 20. Agile thumbs and 85? had carried them all the way from Florida after MacArthur's uncle, prankish Cinemauthor Charles MacArthur, offered them a trip to California if they got to Manhattan on $2 and wangled free lodging from a top-flight New York hotel. After a week of catch-as-catch-can meals and flophouse nights, the Hotel Astor offered them a room. Said Boyd France to inquiring newshawks: "How vivid a story of our adventure do you want? I got an imagination...
Early this week, as Mr. Roosevelt went on an outing down the Potomac, and perplexed party leaders gathered in Chicago, wondering why they were there, Mr. Boyd waited, full of suspense. If what he hoped was going to happen happened, he was certainly the Idea-Man of the Year...