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Skilled fictioneer though he is, J. B. (The Good Companions) Priestley, 59, composed a series of letters that left Oxford Archaeology Professor Charles F. Hawkes unconvinced. Mrs. Hawkes, Priestley wrote the professor from Japan last fall, was only his good companion. But between the lines, Hawkes read more than a traveling literary collaboration. A British judge agreed, granted Hawkes a divorce, called Priestley's adulterous conduct "mean and contemptible...
Divorced. J. B. Priestley, 58, bestsell-mg novelist (The Good Companions), actor and playwright; by Winifred May Priestley, fortyish; after 26 years of marriage, four children; in Exeter, England...
...time for his big prose "aria." As theater-wise Director Jed Harris pointed out: "By appearing to read, but actually knowing their parts by heart, they make the whole thing come alive. In a theatrical production, the power of illusion would be much more difficult." Playwright J. B. Priestley, who saw the show in Brooklyn, was inspired to write the actors a new play. "I got excited about it. I saw that there was in it the basis of a new form. You couldn't call it drama-perhaps heightened debate or oratory...
...London, J. B. Priestley heard that an overenthusiastic admirer, after reading that Priestley "longed for the sun and soil of Arizona," was air-expressing him a shoe box full of the state's soil. Grumbled the novelist: "I would have preferred citrus fruit...
...Priestley's "An Inspector Calls" will be given a reading theatre production with free admission by the Harvard Dramatic Club for one night, Thursday, March 6, at Sanders Theatre. The reading theatre type of production offers an imitation of the action in addition to voicing the lines while only a mimimum number of props are used...