Word: essexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play in three acts by Maxwell Anderson, now being presented by the Theatre Guild, Inc., of New York at the Colonial Theatre, with the following cast: Elizabeth Lynn Fontanne Lord Essex Alfred Lunt Francis Bacon Morris Carnovsky Lord Burghley Edward Fielding and others...
Companion Essex Super-Six has more comfortable upholstery, slightly changed body lines, and a new high-compression motor equipped with three-jet carburetor, an oil-saving piston ring, other power-producing features...
Elizabeth The Queen is a sabre-rattling, pompous historical pageant which relates Maxwell Anderson's idea of the love of the Virgin Queen for the Earl of Essex. Author Lytton Strachey's notion to the contrary, Mr. Anderson's Elizabeth (Lynn Fontanne) and Essex (Alfred Lunt) are heroic amorists whose sturdy devotion is thwarted only because they love power more. To indicate her robustness Mrs. Lunt feels called upon to pitch her usually pleasant voice very deep in her throat and to speak her lines as loudly as possible, the effect of which is not unlike...
...Dyked, pince-nezzed little man who stepped gingerly down a gangplank into the U. S. last fortnight and headed for Madison, N. J., where he assumed his judicial ermine (not his usual German sporting togs and feathered Alpine hat but a grey business suit) at the stylish Morris and Essex Kennel Club show. He, Capt. Max von Stephanitz, one-time cavalry officer in the German army, was the man responsible for the social climb of the Shepherd dog from its lowly position as a German field worker into the world's social register. Thirty-one years ago Capt...
Builder Story smoked a corncob pipe, watching the tug Eveleth pick up the schooner to tow her to Gloucester. Five generations of Storys, tall, spare, taciturn, have built fishing boats at the same deep crook in the stream called the Essex River . . . little Chebacco Boats, Heel Tappers and Pinkeys, the bigger boats of the 1850's, the 1890's. Like other Massachusetts builders, he thinks of racing as he sees a boat grow, but builds it for work. No fishing schooner races before it has gone fishing. The twist of the water on the boat's underbody...