Word: briens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is one of the best plays of the sea son. 'Only one other play (Wings Over Europe) is nearly so well-cast for types, but it is possible to mention more notable parts most notably played. Erin O'Brien-Moore is beautiful and restrained as Rose Maurrant. Robert Kelly is a powerful Frank Maurrant. Best of all the characterizations is Beulah Bondi's Emma Jones...
...Brien Retires...
Robert Lincoln O'Brien, 63, retired last week as editor of the Boston Herald, a post he had held with distinction for 18 years...
...trial grew to resemble a literary symposium. The names of Shakespeare, George Jean Nathan, Aristotle, Gorky, Ibsen, Bernard Shaw and many another were spoken. Author Nichols' "dramaturgical expert," Moses L. Malevinsky of O'Brien, Malevinsky, & Driscoll, proceeded to a comparison of every entrance and exit in Abie's Irish Rose with every entrance and exit in the cinema...
...rumored to have visited, or said he was going to visit the above places. Actually, he left Shanghai, China, a fortnight ago, when snoops and gossips annoyed him (TIME, Dec. 24). Last week, he turned up in Manila, Philippine Islands, under the name of "The Rev. William O'Brien"; he identified himself by showing a passport and an old account book with entries of royalties from his play Anna Christie.* Said he: "My plays are public, but my life should be private." He hinted that his next destination would be Rapallo, Italy, where he plans to finish a cinema...