Word: playboys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Miami, where he had arrived from South America, Playboy Richard Joshua Reynolds, 26, hurried home to Winston-Salem, closeted himself with family lawyers who told him what they knew about the death of his brother Smith, for which Smith's widow, the former Libby Holman, and his best friend Albert ("AB") Walker are awaiting trial. "R. J." Jr. read the coroner's inquest testimony, then announced: "In view of all the facts available at this time, I believe my brother's death was murder." A New York Sun newsman asked heavy-jowled Col. Jacob Ruppert, brewer...
...able playwright (Cuchulain of Muirthemne, Gods & Fighting Men, Saints & Wonders), she sponsored the "Celtic Renaissance" with George Moore, William Butler Yeats, Edward Martyn. Creating an Irish National Theatre out of Abbey Theatre, she aroused a storm of protest with her productions. So unpopular was John Millington Synge's Playboy of the Western World that Lady Gregory's young nephews had to fetch burly athletes from Trinity College to quell the rioting...
...least of those who saw "The Playboy of the Western World" as it was produced by the Abbey Players during the past two weeks, do not quarrel with the verdict. Boston will not soon have the pleasure of seeing as great a play as greatly acted. Those who saw it not, or seeing, did not see, are the more to be pitied. Let them hearken to Professor Murray in Harvard 6 today at eleven o'clock and know at least what they missed...
...There have been foolish threats and disturbances when it was announced that we were going to give O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock," and Synge's "Playboy of the Western World." Just because they depict life realistically and do not hesitate to show the sordid, several self-constituted censors have proposed that we should omit the performances from our repertoire. On the grounds of morality they object to "Juno" because it pictures living conditions among the poor, and in it no Irish girl has an illegitimate child, and of course, no Irish girl would have an illegitimate child. Objections...
...very beginning of the Manchurian crisis last September our Government had been in avowed and effective cooperation with the Council of the League of Nations? We did send a representative to the Council, with limited powers, in October; but in November and December when we sent Chicago's playboy to Paris, he merely flirted with the Council, saying at one moment that he would and at the next moment that he would not attend its meetings. Our Government seems to be of the opinion that treaties to which we attach great importance have been violated, and yet a world conference...