Word: massingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lake (by Dorothy Massingham and Murray MacDonald; produced by Jed Harris). In this sincere, intelligent but somewhat rambling play, there are two powerful scenes. One occurs when Stella Surrege (Katharine Hepburn), who has broken off a sticky love affair with a horsey neighbor (Geoffrey Wardwell) to marry a kindly, understanding War veteran with ?15,000 a year, discovers that she loves her new husband John Clayne . (Colin Clive). It is an hour after their wedding, on a rainy September afternoon. Stella and John are standing under a leaky marquee. Laughing together, they get into their car to go away...
...Four weeks after The Lake started its successful London run last March, Co-author Massingham, recovering from influenza and a nervous breakdown, was found dead in a gas-filled room...
...English Liberals, of whom there used to be a great many, used to read the famed weekly Nation & Athenaeum. It reached its height of influence under the editorship of the late Henry William Massingham. After his death it declined steadily, despite the efforts of John Maynard Keynes and Arnold Rowntree who took it in hand. Last week the few remaining Liberal readers lost their paper to the New Statesman, brilliant Laborite weekly, with which it was merged. Title of the combined magazines is the New Statesman & Nation; editor is Kingsley Martin Young, economist, onetime leader writer on the Manchester Guardian...