Word: drayton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...July passed, August passed, and finally enough of September passed so that it was time to leave the beaches and the clubs, pack up the $350 raccoon coats (bought from Gunther's on Fifth Avenue, of course) and trudge back to Cambridge. The Class moved into Claverly, Westmorly, Russell, Drayton, and a hundred little boarding houses around the Square and settled down to a year of concentration and speculation on what the man with the white mustache would do next. There were some new sights to see around the Square: the Langdell addition had been finished, and the Indoor Athletic...
Debut, a "comedy" by Mary Drayton, has not had a too successful coming-out. There are about four or five humorous parts, all at the expense of Southerners and conventional morals. Since neither morals nor white supremacy are matters for serious consideration to many Yankees, the play may be enjoyed by some. At the Wilbur...
Playwright Mary Drayton has tried to exploit the traditional Southerner's predicament in a time when deep-seated customs must die in face of social progress. She has brought to this situation the modern, probably Yankee assertion, that it's quite proper to mess around sexually with someone before marriage, the better to suit one's mate later. The two require a good deal of delicacy in treatment, particularly if the play has no moral resolution. Unhappily, the makers of Debut have used a heavy hand...
John Ward's diaries ("Shakespear, Drayton and Ben Jhonson had a merry meeting, and itt seems drank too hard, for Shakespear died of a feavour there contracted"), and the world's second largest&* collection of early English (1475-1640) books...
...passenger list also included handsome young Cooper John Alden (Van Johnson) and baby-faced Priscilla Mullins (Dawn Addams). As for Captain Myles Standish (Noel Drayton), the picture portrays him as a happily married man who never courted Priscilla at all. With a shortage of food and water, but not of romance, the Mayflower finally makes Provincetown...