Word: kingsley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Akron to Smith College, and then straight to Broadway. She joined the Theatre Guild as a part-time secretary, worked her way up through odd jobs to casting director, quit in 1931 to become a founder and director of the fiery young Group Theatre, which launched Clifford Odets, Sidney Kingsley, William Saroyan, Elia Kazan, Robert Lewis, John Garfield...
Died. Dame Una Pope-Hennessey, 73, distinguished-British biographer (Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography, 1934; Charles Dickens, 1945; Canon Charles Kingsley, 1949) who was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1930 by King George V for her war work; in London...
...Summary: Burke (H) tied Epstein (A), Rosenholtz (H) defeated Walker (A), 6 and 5. Weissman (H) defeated Kittleman (A), 6 and 4. Hammand (A) defeated Sears (H), 3 and 1. Robinson (A) defeated Reich (H), 1 up. Timpson (H) defeated Kingsley...
...Kingsley finished The Patriots, 1943's Drama Critics Circle award winner, during his four years in the Army (private to lieutenant), but he was broke when he got out. He fixed that by working on a couple of scripts for M-G-M (Homecoming and Cass Timberlane), then plunged into Detective Story...
...sort of memorial," he plans to do his next play about his mother, who died recently. His friends supposed that here, finally, was a subject that would need no research. But Kingsley is running true to form: "My mother was a very proud and mysterious person. There's a lot I don't know about her. I'm going to have to do a little detective work...