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Extremely profitable to themselves, the Quins' cherubic features are not, however, the gold mine for NEA that might be supposed. NEA gives them to the 710 clients of its regular feature service at no extra charge, and now at a cost to itself of about $100,000 a year. Hearst thought the new $50,000 was too high, so NEA hurried around last week placing new Quin contracts. Takers included the Boston Post, Atlanta Journal, Detroit News and, for exclusive U. S. magazine rights, TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Quins' Contract | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

Bright Star (by Philip Barry; Arthur Hopkins, producer). Ten minutes after the curtain goes up on this one, Quin Hanna (Lee Tracy), introduces his fiancée Hope Blake (Julie Haydon) to a pair of old friends. "Hope," he says, "here are a couple of wonderful people-Kate Hastings and Sam Riddle. All gold, these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Oct. 28, 1935 | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

Piecing the tale together from the débris of sloppy obscurantism, childish motivation and antique methods of dramatic narration, reviewers found a fairly simple story: Quin Hanna, "an unscrupulous idealist," goes to a small New England town which for no good reason he decides to convert into a small-bore Utopia, marries a wealthy but vague young woman whom he does not love, gets sick of it, her and himself, is about to decamp when his wife dies. But no matter how frantically the actors called each other harsh names, slapped each other's faces, revealed their inmost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Oct. 28, 1935 | 10/28/1935 | See Source »

...Quin Hanna (Lee Tracy) has driven himself into the mayorality of a small New England town. Brilliant, forceful, a man of action and success he has also driven himself up the social scale to marriage with Hope Blake (Julie Haydon). Hope is madly in love with Hanna but he cannot summon a similar depth of affection for her. He is too absorbed in his own success, too completely egocentric to be capable of love even towards a girl whom he admires and respects as much as he does Hope. Kate Hastings and Sam Biddle, old journalist associates of Hanna realize...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/11/1935 | See Source »

Married. Richard Southwell Windham Robert Wyndham-Quin. Viscount Adare, 40, eldest son of the Fifth Earl of Dunraven; and Nancy Yuille, Manhattan socialite; in Palm Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 19, 1934 | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

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