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Prokofiev based his opera on Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 18th Century comedy: a grandee's daughter, facing parental opposition to her marriage, slyly marries off her duenna to the parental choice (a rich fish merchant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Slightly Bourgeois | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

Died. John Richard Brinsley Norton, 87, fifth Baron Grantley, oldest member of the House of Lords; five weeks after he was named co-respondent in a successful divorce action (TIME, July 12); in London. His hobby: collecting dolls, from Restoration to Victorian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 16, 1943 | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...House of Lords, had committed adultery was not easy for divorce court Justice Gonne Pilcher to believe. But a Piccadilly plaintiff got his divorce and damages, after his full-fashioned wife Pauline admitted in court it was all true. The Baron is a descendant of Georgian dramatist Richard Brinsley (The School for Scandal) Sheridan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 12, 1943 | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

...Birthdays with a famished look and faintly bloodshot eyes. Since Christmas night, not a new show-and only one revival, Porgy and Bess-had really managed to click on Broadway. There had been 16 shows in all, half of them by well-known playwrights-Clifford Odets, Charles MacArthur, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, John van Druten, Samson Raphaelson, Henrik Ibsen, Ben Hecht; and last week there was Marc Connelly. But this week Connelly had joined the rest: his Flowers of Virtue withered after four performances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Big Names Rubbed Out | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...Alfred Frederic Charles zu Castell-Castell, 32, of Munich; in Copenhagen. Married. Francis Townsend Hunter, 42, oldtime U. S. Davis Cup tennist, Manhattan liquor dealer and co-promoter of the Fred Perry-Ellsworth Vines professional tennis tour; and Marjorie Franklin, 30, Manhattan dress-buyer; in Greenwich, Conn. Died, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, son of Clare Consuelo Sheridan, British sculptor and travel-writer, great-great-great-grandson of 18th Century Irish dramatist Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (The School for Scandal) after an appendectomy; in Algeria. Legend is that for 400 years no first-born Sheridan son has lived to inherit or long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 1, 1937 | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

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