Word: gwyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unpredictable, inexhaustible, octogenarian George Bernard Shaw last week disclosed that he is at work on a historical play laid in the reign of Charles II. Said Shaw to sex-sniffing reporters: "Oh, forget about Nell Gwyn; this is going to be about really interesting people . . . Sir Isaac Newton, for instance...
GARLAND OF BAYS-Gwyn Jones-Macmillan...
...Garland of Bays Gwyn Jones has written a realistic historical novel about one of the most romantic Elizabethans-Robert Greene- painting the most credible picture in fiction of that incredible era, and drawing one of the most convincing portraits of a poet that contemporary novels have to offer...
Victoria the Great (RKO Radio). Shaking from her pretty shoulders the garish costumes of two previous cinema roles-as Nell Gwyn and Peg Woffington -Britain's beloved Anna Neagle last week traced with pomp and piety Queen Victoria's long reign. Because the film is lengthy, because its subject is the most sanctified one in British history, awed critics detoured around its rough spots with wistful allusions to Helen Hayes and Victoria Regina, vaguely said that the picture, presenting almost precisely the same episodes as did Laurence Housman's play, was perhaps about as good...
...dozen rehearsals went on simultaneously. Last week Covent Garden received one of the most elegant audiences in its history. Gentlefolk in tiaras and white ties took shortcuts through fruit lorries as fragrant as they were when Nell Gwyn peddled oranges there. Turbaned Eastern princes spanked themselves going through the Opera House's swingdoors. Tier upon tier of the gold & scarlet boxes* were full of distinguished Britons and foreigners as distinguished. Peppery old Sir Thomas Beecham waved his baton. The curtain rose on a storm-tossed ship, the first scene in Verdi's Otello. Tenor Giovanni Martinelli...