Word: geoffrey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TROILUS & CRESSIDA - Geoffrey Chaucer; Englished anew by George Philip Krapp-Random House ($3.50). Geoffrey Chaucer (circa 1340-1400), whom posterity has agreed to call a pretty poet, has had his ups & downs. Many a lesser man, making light of Chaucer's archaic English, has tried to re-drape his sturdy uncouthness in modern dress. 17th-century Poet John Dryden ("Chaucer, I confess, is a rough Diamond; and must first be polish'd e'er he shines") was one. Latest is Columbia Professor George Philip Krapp. Partly because new books are scarce around Christmastime, partly because Random House...
Domino. Producer William Augustin Brady got his season-opener from his wife Grace George, who adapted it from the French of Marcel Achard. A faithful wife (Jessie Royce Landis), disturbed by her husband's jealousy of her onetime lover (Geoffrey Kerr), hires a ne'er-do-well called Domino (Rod La Rocque) to pretend that it is he who has been her lover. The love of Lorette and the foppish Cremone had been a routine, spiritless affair. Domino makes of it a romantic adventure, much to the discomfort of both ex-lovers, much to the bewilderment of the husband, Heller...
Somewhere between Paris and New York Domino lost its charm, possibly in the translation which turns "Sans blague!" to "Oh, yeah?" Domino's few funny moments were due to Geoffrey Kerr, who stuttered, smoked cigarets in a foot-long holder, made both pathetic and amusing his portrayal of fumbling ineffectuality...
...July 4 issue of TIME your discussion of Plain Talk magazine recalls a real journalistic firebrand, Geoffrey Dell Eaton, who founded it, and died June...
...Author. An English Jewess, Gladys Bronwyn Stern Holdsworth was born in London in 1890, seven years later wrote a play mostly because the billiard room in her home made a good stage. She studied drama, soon decided on a literary career. In 1919 Geoffrey Lisle Holdsworth, English journalist, lying wounded in a hospital, read her Twos and Threes, objected so strongly to its hero that he wrote her a bitter complaint. Replying in her defense Authoress Stern asked him to come and see her; three months later they married. Now she lives in a lofty villa at Diano Marina, Italy...