Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the National Conference for Palestine, one of eleven audiences he will address before returning to England, he shed no tears for his lost land. "There are nearly 10,000,000 of my people facing suffering and depredation, but they, being united together, can endure and survive it and come out victorious in the end," he said. "But the Jews, scattered all over the world-what chance have they to fight off hatred and oppression which has driven them from their homes and dumped them on the highways of the world? The Jews are a minority everywhere. And without tolerance...
...England last month the Merseyside Left Theatre Club produced Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty. From the play the Lord Chamberlain (official censor) had struck out-as profane-the line: "They'll tear Christ from his bleeding cross." When the Merseysiders used the line anyhow, an uproar followed. The manager banged down the curtain. Ten of the club's actors and officials were ordered arrested...
...Carroll as a young man lit out for Glasgow. There for 15 years, living in the slums himself, he taught slum children about "who discovered America and other such nonsense." He wrote plays which got a hearing at Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre, but brought in little income. England and Scotland ignored him. The U. S. success of Shadow and Substance last year gave Carroll his first independence, enabled him to quit teaching, buy an old country villa...
...Carroll will go on writing about. The U. S., where at present he is visiting, he would not live in either, but its theatre is the one in the world that excites him. Scotland, though dramatically a cipher, is the place to live -because "its people leave you alone." England, full of "those gentle barbarians so much more dangerous than bloody barbarians," he despises...
...green-eyed, brown-haired, India-born daughter of an English stock broker, who got part of her training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, made a hit on the London stage in The Mask of Virtue, played subsequent cinema roles in Fire Over England, Storm in a Teacup and A Yank at Oxford...