Word: pineros
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Trelawny of the Wells?All-star revival of Pinero's play on actors...
Trelawny of the Wells. Producer George C. Tyler said, "Where would the world be if it weren't for sentiment?"; and answered his own question by reviving Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play with the the stage-folk of yesterday: John Drew, Mrs. Whiffen, Otto Kruger, Effie Shannon, Henrietta Crosman, Wilton Lackaye, O. P. Heggie. He tossed in a few of the younger luminaries, too: Pauline Lord...
...famed Sadler's "Wells" during the reign of good Queen Victoria. To the zip-gobbling audiences of this day, the play offers mellow humor and pathos-qualities whose commercial values are doubtful. To the student of the theatre, to the lover of stage personalities, it is irresistable. Dramatist Pinero in Trelawny has created a young playwright-one whose theories and struggles against the theatrical traditions of the time were those of Sir Arthur himself. Young Tom Wrench abhors the long, pompous speeches; his characters speak like human beings. Scornfully, the old actors reject his manuscript: "Why, sir, there...
...complexion of the affair altered as Captain Wright testified last week on his own behalf and was cross-examined by Lord Gladstone's attorneys. At the trial Lord and Lady Gladstone sat together, venerable, glacial; and in the visitors' gallery sat famed (though slightly passÉ) dramatist Sir Arthur Wing Pinero; the Rt. Hon. Thomas P. O'Connor, "Father of the House of Commons"; Lady Milner and many another...
...Pinero, Henry Arthur Jones, Shaw, Barrie...