Word: priestleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
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...