Word: geoffrey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fierce Welsh roasting was what David Lloyd George gave last week to cucumber-cool Editor Geoffrey Dawson of the sacrosanct London Times. The Times has deplored Mr. Lloyd George's feature-writing for William Randolph Hearst. Recently the Times dug back through Hearst files to 1923, dug out a statement by Mr. Lloyd George anent the Anglo-U. S. debt settlement, printed part of it in an effort to show that the Welshman's debt stand eight years ago is inconsistent with his stand today. In his retort (a letter-to-the-Tzwes reprinted and featured by Hearstpapers...
...Wells himself has written an introduction to this book, in which he informs you that "Geoffrey West's" real name is Geoffrey H. Wells, no relation, who adopted his pen-name to avoid confusion. Everything in the book, says Wells, is quite true as far as it goes. "I have kept nothing back from him of any importance and if he has kept anything back from the public that is a matter of his own discretion. I have lived in accordance with my convictions and if I am troubled by remorse for certain things I have done, they...
...Geoffrey West makes no mention of his pseudonymous fellow, Rebecca West (Cicely Isabel Fairfield, now Mrs. Henry Maxwell Andrews), onetime great & good friend to H. G., who once sat at his feet, has since penned some interesting observations of her former master. Wells's attitude to his profession is hardboiled, so sensible you wonder if he can really mean it. Says he: "I have never taken any great pains about writing. I am outside the hierarchy of conscious and deliberate writers altogether. . . . Sir J. C. Squire doubts if I shall 'live' and I cannot say how cordially...
...Kiss of Importance should please people who like quasi-sexual French comedy performed by excellent actors. It is tastefully done and venerable Frederick Kerr, 72, father of Geoffrey Kerr (London Calling, This is New York) gives the production a certain air of dignity. Admirers of the charming elder Kerr believe that if everybody grew up to be a septuagenarian like him, the world would be a better place. Included in the cast is Basil Rathbone (The Captive, The Command to Love), a handsome ascetic mummer. Along with Mr. Kerr, Actor Rathbone appeared in The Czarina and in the cinema Lady...
...chorister, Francis Stacy Holmes of West Roxbury; for Ivy Orator, Ogden White, of Oyster Bay, Long Island; for Senior Class Album Committee, Geoffrey Parsons, Jr., of Rye, New York, Frank Edwin Remick, of Quincy, and Edward Kuhn Straus, of New York City...