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...show didn't sell well; neither did a subsequent one. In 1919 some of his friends-including Sickert and Max Beer-bohm-gave Walter Greaves a big dinner and a check for ?150. He died, grey and penniless, in 1930 in a London almshouse, dejected because the authorities would not let him blacken his hair, so that it would be like Whistler...
...regulars from "Earnest," Gielgud plays his part of the penniless, enamored black sheep, just straightly enough to win the genuine sympathy of the audience. The very funny scene in which he pretends to be mad is Congreve's best, and Gielgud's ability to handle more serious roles is shown in his tragi-comie declaration of love to Angelica. Pamela Brown plays the latter with the necessary restraint to make the character credible beneath the neat stylization. Her quiet, satirical mugging helps give the standard part another dimension. Expertly entangled among the various intrigues of plot are Robert Flemyng...
...husband. Later she lived in Mexico, wrote a book about it (South of the Border), then went to Japan on a scholarship. The day after Pearl Harbor the Japs made her a civilian war prisoner. She came back to the U.S. on the Gripsholm at the end of 1943, penniless and broken in health, to learn that her husband had been killed in action...
...Menninger agrees that the ideal way to cut down on mental upsets would be to eliminate their social causes: international tension, housing shortages, strikes, graft, racketeering. Meanwhile, the A.P.A. has set out to collect funds for research and public education. A.P.A.'s newly organized Psychiatric Foundation, starting life penniless, hopes by public education to attract more medical students into psychiatry, and to "combat the stigma connected with mental illness" which still keeps thousands of emotionally frazzled people from consulting a psychiatrist...
Died. Frederic William Goudy, 82, dean of U.S. type designers; of coronary thrombosis; in Marlboro, N.Y. A penniless bookkeeper until he was 33, Goudy turned to his rare craft with the conviction that printed words should aid, not distract, the reader. Of his hundred-odd simple, honest designs for printing type, six are now classic, one (Kennerly) is considered by some experts the most beautiful since the work of 18th Century Master William Caslon...