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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PRETTY WITTY NELL-Clifford Bax-Morrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nell Gwyn | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

...Nell Gwyn's 37 years were not all beer & skittles, but Biographer Bax is of the cheerful opinion that her short life was mostly merry. In a musical-comedy age she played one of the star parts, and the applause has not yet died away. Born in the slums of London, her father dead and her mother already a drunkard, Nell served drinks in a bawdy-house when she was still a moppet. She was only 10 when the Restoration brought her future lover, Charles II, back to England. Puritanism no longer darkened the doors of theatres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nell Gwyn | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

Poet Laureate John Dryden wrote pat parts for her saucy tongue; she even essayed tragic roles, much to the disgust of Gossip Samuel Pepys. Pepys was mighty proud of going behind the scenes once and meeting Actress Nell. Said he: "I kissed her, and so did my wife: and a mighty pretty soul she is." When she was 17 Lord Buckhurst gave her her first vacation from the stage; soon after, the Merry Monarch himself looked her way. Nell's cockney wit was never abashed by grand company. She made her royal lover laugh by saying that "he might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nell Gwyn | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

...Goldsmith '33, Valero, Harrison Wood '36; Lucas, R. C. De Long '36; Thibault, J. D. Kernan '34; Lucinde, Lesilo Blake; Martino, Mary Loring; and Perrino, Lorvalue Warnor. The following will act in "Seranado"; Marquis do Gavennes, J. S. Plaut '33; DeFayollo, Harrison Wood '36; Mlle, de Pierreneuve, Mrs. Nell Phillips; and, a servant, Mary Cleveland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CERCLE FRANCAIS ENDS TRIALS FOR FALL PLAYS | 11/22/1932 | See Source »

...Commerce, Hunter Wright found one friend. Tillman Anderson, landowner, offered him the use of a small island in the Mississippi. Off to the island went hunters, dogs and the two lions, Nell & Bess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Scooped Lions | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

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