Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John van Druten had his first stage success (Young Woodley, 1925) when he was 24. Since then, he has rarely been without a hit-if not in London, then in New York. His biggest: There's Always Juliet (1931), Old Acquaintance (1940), and The Voice of the Turtle...
Such consistent success was earned by the diligent exercise of a slender but well-muscled comic talent-a gift, said one critic, for being "obviously obvious about the very obvious." His father, a Dutch banker in London, insisted that John read for the law before starting a writing career. John dutifully did, began writing Young Woodley while teaching English law and legal history at the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth...
...turn of the century, when she was already middleaged, private commissions from British art patrons to fashion jewelry took her to London. There Novelist Henry James sat through some of her interminable monologues about art, nicknamed her "The Conversationalist...
...picture is mounted with a radiant opulence. Items: $250,000 to recreate and cremate 17th Century London; $100,000 to reconstruct a wing of Whitehall Palace; $90,000 for Amber's wardrobe; $100,000 to film one kiss (which was later...
...obviously in hopes that audiences literally will not be able to hear themselves think. The scheme backfires in a curious way: with eyes drugged by the Technicolor and ears numbed by the weight of sound, cinemaddicts are in no shape to appreciate the movie's Big Attractions (The London Fire, The Great Plague, The Duel, Amber in Childbirth...