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...give him work. Son Harry wins 22 quid on horse race and gets a girl into trouble. Unable to subsist as a human being on her meagre wages, Sally Hardcastle (Wendy Hiller) snatches a few rewarding moment; out on a Lancashire heath with an agitato named Larry (Brandon Peters). When Larry is killed in an unemployed riot, Salb makes her final adjustment to a pitiless environment by becoming the "housekeeper" of a paunchy bookmaker named Sam Grundy. In the season's most eloquent tagline, Henry Hardcastle then sums up the hopelessness of the whole situation: "I've done...
...Clairsville, Ohio, Alexander Hamilton Brandon, 75, was awarded an old age pension after officials had verified the facts that his grandfather was with George Washington at Valley Forge, his grandmother was an Indian, nine of his brothers fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War, eight for the Union...
Representing the actor's point of view, Brandon Tynan soundly asserted that the theatre "was not essentially to blame for the life it portrays." Since the drama "expresses the life of the nation .... it is ineffectual to throw stones at the mirror." He justly called Boston's censorship system "condemnation without representation", for, at present theatres may have their licenses revoked as well as their plays banned without even the pretense of a hearing. It is remarkable that such undemocratic treatment should have continued almost undisputed for twenty-one years...
...Phyllis Oakes rolled off the car which sped away. Rushed by her sister to a hospital, Miss Oakes died while friends remarked that only the day before she had written a poem on Death entitled Smile. A capable secretary, she had worked regularly for second-string Novelist Dorothy Brandon (Beau Regard...
Married. Francis Spring Rice, Lord Monteagle of Brandon, 82; and Mrs. Julia Emma Isobella FitzGerald Spring Rice, 81, sister of his deceased first wife; in a London Registry Office at which the bride, her thigh lately fractured, arrived in a wheel chair...