Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undergraduate actors ran afoul of the law with the play "Fiesta," by the New York playwright, Micheal Gold. The original manuscript of the work, a comedy of the Mexican Revolution is on view and next to it is a letter from the Boston board of censors indicating that it was "improper" and "unfit for presentation...
Besides this manuscript there are original scripts of plays by Thomas Wolfe and John Mason Brown, while in one case may be seen an autographed letter from Noel Coward accepting an honorary membership in the Club...
Similar to the U. S. Book-of-the-Month Club is the Book Society of England, but its officials are frequently remiss in their labors. Without carefully reading the manuscript. Book Society officials picked for their May selection Coronation Commentary by Geoffrey Dennis, ordered 10,000 copies. The title was perfectly timed. Of the author, the officials knew that he was Editor & Chief of the Document Service of the League of Nations Secretariat, well-versed in the history and procedure of the British Crown, author of many a forceful magazine article, and husband of a great-niece of Dante Gabriel...
...packed courtroom as he took his seat. With a rustling of robes his Associates joined him. The Chief Justice, turning his head, gave a brief nod toward the right extremity of the bench. Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts, end man of the Court, took up a manuscript and began to read...
Pulled from their shelves in steel-lined vaults, 150 manuscript treasures of the semi-public Pierpont Morgan Library in Manhattan went on view last week. Books displayed ranged from Caxton's History of Troy, first book printed in the English language, to J. P. Morgan's privately printed prayer book. The exhibition was not to honor the books themselves, but the slender blonde woman who had rebound all of them with her own hands: Marguerite Duprez Lahey...