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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, the office of theatrical producer Arch Selwyn triumphantly announced that Producer Selwyn in London recently had acquired the U. S. rights to Dawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Twittering at Dawn | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...BRONZE TREASURY-Edited by Harry Kemp-Macaulay ($3). Thomas Tusser, Soame Jenyns, Richard Yago, Theophile Marzials, Selwyn Image- even the name of the 78 minor poets in this anthology of the obscure, like their lives and their verses, are strange, flimsy and exciting. Author Kemp is sensitive to the fine moments when, for each, mediocre talent burned suddenly with an unsteady brighter flame. He writes their brief biographies with understanding and sympathy, better than he wrote his own and similar biography with its perhaps ironic title, Tramping on Life. For him these not great but very gracious poems have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Treasury | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...Mating Season is something awful that happened in the Selwyn Theatre. It might be described as a drawing-room comedy with a Times Square touch. Before the high-class gentlemen marry the swell ladies they engage in dialogue that scintillates after the manner of the following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Aug. 1, 1927 | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...Very Reverend Frank Selwyn Macaulay Bennett, 60, Dean of Chester, genial husbandman of souls: "I lived as a boy in the middle of a great hunting country. Hounds and pink coats still give me a sort of tingle. But the best part of me knows that it is all barbarous and brutal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: More Good Than Harm? | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...Very Rev. Frank Selwyn Macaulay Bennett, D.D., Dean of Chester, England, will conduct the services tomorrow at 11 o'clock in Appleton Chapel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bennett to Conduct Services | 10/9/1926 | See Source »

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