Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like MGM's previous productions in England, A Yank at Oxford and The Citadel, Goodbye, Mr. Chips makes economical use of local actors, notably 300 students of Repton School who acted as extras during their vacation. Besides Robert Donat, Goodbye, Mr. Chips employs only two performers who are likely to mean much in Hollywood. One is Terry Kilburn, 12-year-old son of a London bus driver, who made a hit as Tiny Tim in last season's Christmas Carol, and who functions in quadruplicate as a four-generation student of Mr. Chips. He is under long-term...
...those racing fans who prefer to bet against bookmakers (because their odds are stable), non-partisan observers last week suggested permitting both bookmakers and pari-mutuels to operate at New York tracks, a common practice in England and Australia. New York merchants, who disapprove of mutuels (because of their popularity with the masses), had the condolences of the merchants of Miami, Los Angeles, Boston, Baltimore...
...York World's Fair, as a part of a Merrie England folderol, the Bard of Avon is played inside a replica of the famed Elizabethan Globe Theatre. Thanks to Director Margaret Webster, the Old Globe's Shakespeare is neither skittish nor stodgy. Four Shakespeare comedies-As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew-have been shrunk to a quarter their usual size, ironed without starch. Punched into shape as unceremoniously as a vaudeville act, Shakespeare's one-acters-runoff seven times a day-perk...
...both sides she comes of English actors : famed Dame May Whitty is her mother, Shakespearean Actor Ben Webster her father. Acting since childhood, Margaret Webster slid into directing because the field was less crowded, but admits she prefers acting. Though she professionally directed a score of plays in England, it was in the U. S. three years ago, with Evans' Richard II, that she first directed Shakespeare. Directing plans for next year: Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Some day: Shakespeare's Troilus and, Cressida, Macbeth...
Died. Mrs. Edward Lascelles, 50, sister-in-law of Princess Mary's husband, the Earl of Harewood; by her own hand (shooting) ; in Lutterworth, England...