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...thirst for the theatre still unquenched after a year's enforced abstinence, His Majesty the King-Emperor continued to go-to-the-play last week. After seeing that hardy perennial Rose Marie (for the fourth time) and The First Mrs. Eraser by limping St. John Ervine (TIME, Nov. 18), the royal attention bent to two more plays, of ascending gravity. First The Middle Watch, a decorous farce of life in the British Navy by Major John Hay Beith; second, gripping Journey's End, by R. C. Sherriff, enthusiastically recommended by the Prince of Wales.* Author Sherriff was summoned...
...Last week was memorable for Dramatist Sherriff. The evening following the King's visit to his play, the manuscript of Journey's End was put up at auction at the tenth Anniversary Dinner of the League of Nations Union, brought $7,500, highest price ever paid for the manuscript of a living author's first play...
London papers carried a business announcement last week of the formation of a new corporation, to be known as R. C. Sherriff Ltd. "to acquire the copyright of all and any existing and future literary, dramatic, and artistic works of R. C. Sherriff and to carry on the business of publishers and booksellers." Capital: $5,000. Directors: R. C. Sherriff, Mrs. Sherriff, E. Tudor Mash...
Gilbert, Robert or Oswald-Oswald, Robert or Gilbert? For months political observers have played a counting-out game with these names trying to guess who was to succeed Sir Esme Howard as British Ambassador to Washington. Last week came abrupt word from London that neither Oswald, Robert or Gilbert, but Ronald is It. Sir Oswald Mosley, famed Socialist baronet, remained Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Sir Robert Vansittart, secretary to Prime Minister MacDonald and favorite of the counters-out, was appointed Head of the Foreign Office as Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Professor Gilbert Murray, violent...
...newspapers commented last week...