Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Breaks. There is always a breath of country air in the production of J. C. (Father) and Elliott (Son) Nugent. They write their plays, one would suppose, while sitting on the front porch, and then read the script to the neighbors. Although the plot of their latest contribution hangs upon a surgical operation which is highly sophisticated if scientifically vague, the play retains a rural placidity. Perhaps this is because Father Nugent, a portly but very mildly sinister figure, acts his leading role...
...Willis, a mean, unmarried, sturdy and unscrupulous cotton farmer; because he wants a son, he proposes to his hired girl. Her rough and ready steady, Jim Dolf (Elliott Nugent), has a fight with Farmer Willis, in the course of which he inflicts the injury that makes necessary a sawbone's attention. When this has been supplied, Mr. Willis marries little Amy and discovers that he is incapable of begetting any child. With pathos that comes close to bathos, he allows the hired girl to fly away with her true sweetie; he will marry a rawboned backwoodswoman, because she wants...
Elected. George Blow Elliott, 55, of Wilmington, N. C., vice president and general counsel of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co., to be president of the line. Mr. Elliott, whose father was president of the same railroad (1900-1902) succeeds the late John R. Kenly...
...subject discussed outside of the great ecclesiastical bodies would offend conservative opinion; or that to avoid this offense, the document would be framed in terms cautious, trite, and without value. That neither was the case was due to the prestige and adroitness of its two sponsors, Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, secretary of the U. S. Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, and the Rt. Rev. William Temple, Anglican Bishop of Manchester. Dr. Speer, since his graduation from Princeton in 1889, has attended many a missionary conference. He could doubtless remember those in which it would have been regarded as presumptuous...
...Scarlet Fox," a play by Willard Mack, presented at the Theatre Masque by James W. Elliott with the following cast: Henry Smithers Victor R. Beecroft Jenkins Orville O., Harris Eric Hammersley Arthur Wellesley Michael Devlin Willard Mack John Christansen Hans Sandquist Novak Victor Esker Ling Foo Loo Sam Lee Harry Spatz Joseph Sweeney "Swede" Cora Marie Chambers Kathlyn McGuire Katherine Wilson Martha Alice Moe Trixie Helen Handin Cherry Betty Brenska Bessle Beatrice Banyard Tommy McGuire Clark Marshall...