Word: monckton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many Waters. It is a favorite axiom of dramatists that you never can tell what anguish has moulded the calm faces on the avenues. Monckton Hoffe, a British playwright, has for some time been demonstrating this fact in London with Many Waters, which permits you to live through the years with a little architect, James Barcaldine, and his pleasant wife. So tranquil are the Barcaldines that a theatrical impresario cites them as the sort of people who like twinkling artificial entertainment because their own lives are so fatuously real...
Until Dr. Phelps's memory mends, "Miss Tiverton" will serve. The lady's second offering fully merits the company of her first. Maidens revolt in every third novel these days but here is a maiden whose technique is neither kittenish nor hoydenish. Motherless Letty Monckton is a British country gentlewoman with as much poise as poetry about her. Her flight from the bosom of Moncktonism?father, manor, cousins, suitor ?to the humbler hearth and home of Andrew Bullen, tweeded biologist, is not like the flapping of a decapitated chicken but like the career of a startled teal, which will...
...British doctors dealt frankly with the monks. They- Drs. Sydney A. Monckton Copeman and Major Greenwood were on a, mission for the Ministry of Health to learn how much influence a vegetarian and a flesh diet had in causing cancer. Was cancer more prevalent among carnivores than among flesh-abstainers, or the opposite? It would be possible, scientists reasoned, to segregate batches of humans, like laboratory mice, and study the effects of diets. But that would be inconvenient. Then a keen mind in the Ministry of Health fixed attention on the Roman Catholic monasteries in England. The monks living...
Impending productions in London are: Lord Adrian by Dunsany, Monckton Hoffe's The Lady Cristilinda, The Perfect Fit (adapted from the American A Tailor-Made Alan) and a revival of Paddy the Next Best Thing. During the holidays Gladys Cooper, the most popular actress in England, will play the annual Peter Pan revival. Miss Cooper comes to America in March for production in a few of her most noted London successes...