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Dead End (by Sidney Kingsley; Norman Bel Geddes, producer). In teeming Manhattan no expert statistician is needed to point out that the city's wealth is unequally divided. Crisscrossed everywhere by hairlines of social distinction, with frowsy tenements rubbing their rumps against the flanks of patrician apartment houses, the island's very real estate proclaims the class war. Dramatic implications of this scene must have occurred to many a playwright before they were seized upon by Sidney Kingsley, who, though he won a Pulitzer Prize two years ago with his Men in White, is a comparative newcomer...
Onto this extraordinary set Playwright Kingsley leads a poor crippled architect who, in the vain hope of winning a young woman living with one of the plutocrats in the fine apartment, informs on a boyhood friend named "Babyface" Martin. Martin's predilection for homicide has ranked him as Public Enemy No. 1. At the same time, the dramatist shows by inference how "Babyface" Martins are made by tracing the activities of a moppet named Tommy (Billy Halop) and his juvenile gang. There is nothing more seriously the matter with Tommy than that he has lice in his hair, which...
...wide variety of plays. With malice toward none we shall ramble alphabetically. "Children's Hour" carries over from last season with two magnificent acts of stirring drama in a boarding school for young ladies, one of whom knows a bit too much about the "facts." "Dead End," by Sidney Kingsley of "Men in White" renown, opened recently and has been hailed as a masterful drama of New York life and its social problems. Priestley's "Eden End" is a comedy which is funny, but not quite uproariously so. "The Night of January 16th" is chiefly remarkable in that it allows...
...earnest to share his dream, Kingsley Fairbridge told not even his father until he was 21 and ready for Oxford. One of the first Rhodes Scholars, he went in for boxing in the belief that through athletic distinction he might gain a hearing for his plan. Although dogged all his life by malaria, he won his Blue and one night in 1909 the Oxford Colonial Club gave him his hearing, endorsed his plan...
...British South Africa Co. refused him land, he turned to Australia. There, on a capital of £2,000 supplied mostly by Colonial Club members, the first Fairbridge Farm School was started in 1912. In 1924 when it was firmly established on a 3,200-acre farm near Pinjarra, Kingsley Fairbridge died of malaria...