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...Both of whom were last seen on Broadway in the '305: Morley in Oscar Wilde, Miss Ashcroft in High...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Edward, My Son (by Robert Morley & Noel Langley; produced by Gilbert Miller & Henry Sherek) should repeat on Broadway the great success and long run (since May 1947) which it has had in London. It is that juicy mixture of about one part truth to two parts tripe known as good theater-that plumb sort of playwriting which is really just scene-writing. It gives two excellent English actors (Co-Playwright Morley and Peggy Ashcroft)* excellent opportunities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...play does not lack insight, but its real allegiance is to the footlights, with their richer-than-life diet of emotions. As Holt, indeed, Actor Morley sinks his teeth into the role as though it were an ear of corn dripping with butter-which, theatrically, it is. As Holt's wife, Actress Ash-croft-turning from a happy young mother into a blotchy old drunk-has a fat acting part too; but for brief seconds here & there, she is so good that she gives it the pinched look of tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Sylvanus G. Morley, 65, archeologist, top-rank authority on the ancient Maya civilization; of coronary thrombosis; in Santa Fe, N. Mex. Long associated with the Carnegie Institution of Washington, he spent some 40 years directing excavations in Yucatan and Guatemala, headed the 1932 expedition which explored the city of Calakmul, one of the big finds of Maya archeology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 13, 1948 | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...will play on a statue of the Virgin placed high on Cape Trinity by an habitant grateful for his recovery after a fall through the Saguenay's ice. Then the whistles will sound, while passengers marvel at the long-drawn echoes between Capes Trinity and Eternity-what Christopher Morley called "Yowling a klaxon at Eternity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: End of the Deep Water | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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