Word: priestleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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London. Early this year beef-eating Yorkshireman John Boynton Priestley, author of best-selling novels (The Good Companions, Angel Pavement), several U. S. stage flops, one hit (Dangerous Corner), stood up to the almighty British Broadcasting Corp., calling it monopolistic and its programs a bore. Fortnight ago BBC commissioned a novel for serial broadcasting, 20 minutes every Sunday. Commissioned novelist: J. B. Priestley. The radio novel, Let the People Sing, was reported to be another cross-sectioning of British life like The Good Companions...
DEATH PAYS A DIVIDEND-John Rhode -Dodd, Mead ($2). Dr. Priestley solves the murder of an impeccable secretary of a London stock broker. Merit: a puzzle you can get your fingers into. Fault: a bit too much police theorizing...
...London, Frank Pettingell, leading actor in J. B. Priestley's When We Are Married, was injured in a motor accident...
Overnight, Priestley-who had never acted before-stepped into the part, played a drunken Yorkshire photographer so nimbly that he boomed the show from drowsy success to smash hit. After his first performance Priestley confessed he had not been so nervous in 23 years: "My trouble was I didn't know the lines. You see, I wrote them...
...Last season English Playwright J. B. Priestley's Time and the Conways flopped badly in Manhattan; this season his I Have Been Here Before flopped worse. Priestley wrote in an English magazine last week: "I have always felt that there was an inexplicable sense of menace in New York, as if something . . . were plotting against the soul...