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Laburnum Grove (by John Boynton Priestley; Gilbert Miller & Milton Shubert, producers). When cheerful Novelist Priestley discovered that all was right with the world-or soon would be-he began to make a small fortune out of his books (The Good Companions; English Journey). He is likely to make another fortune from the stage on the strength of his discovery that a playwright can get by with a few unpretentious tricks and a couple of good characters. For the characters of Bernard Baxley and George Radfern in Laburnum Grove, Playwright Priestley may be forgiven almost any of his dramatic shortcomings. Bernard...
...FINCHLEY'S HOLIDAY-Victor Canning-Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.50). A British Caspar Milquetoast offers to watch a stranger's expensive automobile. When he falls asleep in the back, he is stolen with the car. His subsequent adventures remind readers of J. B. Priestley's hearty-humorous The Good Companions...
...inside forward, kicked the ball under the home team bar. HARVARD ARMY England, g. g., Horstman Holcombe, r.f. r.f., Jakle Stent, l.f. l.f., Tyler Roosevelt, r.h. r.h., Cummings Robinson, c.h. c.h., Bryles, Stegmaier Vincent, Burbank, Rickard, l.h. l.h., Stanton (Capt.) Manheimer, r.o. r.o., Neff Cles, Kelly, Motley, r.i. r.i., Priestley Grover, c. c., Hayes Stork (Capt.) l.i. l.i., Boys Wood, l.o. l.o., Russell...
...Captain Ted Robie, at center halfback, and "Slim" Robey, in the goal. The lineups: HARVARD ARMY England, g. g., Horsiman Holcombe, r.f. r.f., Jakle Stent, l.f. l.f., Tyler Roosevelt, r.h.b. r.h.b., Cummings Robinson, c.h.b. c.h.b., Stegmaier Vincent, l.h.b. l.h.b., Stanton (Capt). Manheimer, r.o. r.o., Neff Clos, r.i. r.i., Priestley Grover, c. c., Hayes Stork (Capt.), l.i. l.i., Boys Wood, l.o. l.o., Russell 1938 WORCESTER Robey, g. g., Leary Sargent, r.f. r.f., Ryder Clark, l.f. l.f., Schwartz Alexandre, r.h.b. r.h.b., Hayes Robie (Capt.), c.h.b. c.h.b., Harrison White, l.h.b. l.h.b., Karle Earle, r.o. r.o., Dorsey Davis, r.i. r.i., Edmands Simpson...
...Author? Son of a Yorkshire schoolmaster, John Boynton Priestley still talks in his broad, matter-of-fact native accent. At the outbreak of the War he enlisted as a private, emerged in 1918 as an .officer. In his three years at Cambridge he "was always faintly uncomfortable, being compelled to feel?and quite rightly too?a bit of a lout and a bit of a mountebank." While still an undergraduate he published a book of parodies (Brief Diversions), then went to London as literary adviser to a publisher, wrote book reviews for the London Mercury and the Daily News...