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Eden End (by John Boynton Priestley; Milton Shubert, producer). Wrote Author-Playwright Priestley (The Good Companions, Laburnum Grove) in the New York Times three weeks before his lastest play opened in Manhattan: " I should like to see more English plays here, more American plays in London... There will be disappointments, of course... The average New Yorker does not go to the theatre in exactly the same state of mind as the average London citizen. The former has a weakness for plays that tighten and then jangle his nerves. Our London audiences like to be gently moved, to melt into...
...summary: ARMY, 2 HARVARD, 2 Drum, g. g., Perry Jakle, r.f. r.f., Holcombe Tyler, Capt., l.f. l.f., Powell McGoldrick, r.h. r.h., Burbank Truxton, c.h. c.h., Dorman, Capt. Stegmaner, l.h. l.h., Vincent Neff, r.o. r.o., Dawson Priestley, r.i. r.i., Motley, T. Rutherford, c. c., Manheimer Major, l.i. l.i., Motley, E. Broyles, l.o. l.o., Wood...
CHALLENGE TO DEATH-Viscount Cecil, Storm Jameson et al.-Button ($2). Fifteen British writers (among them: Rebecca West, Vera Brittain, Julian Huxley, J. B. Priestley, Edmund Blunden) inveigh against...
Love in Winter is prefaced by the conventional disclaimer that its characters and events are fictitious, but readers will not need both eyes to see autobiographical likenesses in Hervey, the book's central character, may catch suggestions of other actual people (notably Novelist John Boynton Priestley). Love in Winter carries on the careers of the characters introduced in Company Parade, but the central narrative tells of Hervey's love affair with her cousin. Nicholas Roxby. Both are married-Hervey to a no-account weakling who has failed her again & again, is now idling at Oxford; Nicholas...
...modestly dedicates The Pumpkin Coach to Critic Burton Rascoe, who once avowed: "I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing." But Author Paul does not do himself justice : his book, in spots, is even truer than it is beautiful. Readers who liked John Boynton Priestley's The Good Companions will find the same sort of indiscriminating gusto in The Pumpkin Coach...