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...career combined scholarship with administrative work. An authority of eighteenth century English literature, Little was particularly interested in the work of David Garrick...
...fingernail grip on Broadway in the Theatre Guild's Garrick Gaieties, and was seen briefly in a 1931 flop called Company's Coming. But Broadway, like everything else, was sliding into the Depression. Drawing on all her confidence and energy, Ros got a job with Wee & Leventhal, who operated a cut-rate theatrical circuit covering such Broadway outposts as Brooklyn, Newark and Philadelphia. Her salary was $45 a week, but she more than doubled it by playing better pinochle than Producer Leventhal on their inter-city train rides...
Churchill Up. Dejectedly Rab Butler slumped offstage, embarrassed by his first pronounced failure in nine months on the boards of Parliament. Disillusioned but still expectant, the House reserved its final judgment until the second act, when the star, author and director of the show, the 20th-century Garrick of politics, would himself take the stage. Surely Winston Churchill had saved for himself something more exciting. "This afternoon," suggested the London News Chronicle, "the Prime Minister must justify [his previous] words-or clothe himself in the mantle of King Lear...
...Garrick seemed old and tired when he entered, and the waiting Laborites figuratively fondled fresh sacks of old vegetables. Nye Bevan came in with a shabby brown briefcase, and was greeted by Tory protests that the bag violated...
...Britain's American colonies, which he bought for a "reasonable" $151,000. While still a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania, Rosy made his first big find in a Philadelphia auction room: the long-lost first edition of Dr. Johnson's Prologue, written for Actor David Garrick. He bid it up 10 at a time until he carried it away triumphantly for $3.60, later turned down a $5,000 offer for it. Last March Rosy announced his most famous sale: 73 prized volumes of Shakespeare folios and quartos to Dr. Martin Bodmer, Swiss banker, for something over...