Word: selwyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exactly the kind of African Colonist Rhodes wanted was Major Geoffrey Selwyn who went to Kenya in 1920 with £1,700, an old wound and his indomitable Wife Helen Eugenie. He bought a farm in northwest Kenya near Eldoret, a town of some 700 Dutch-speaking Boers who trekked once more into the hinterland when Britain conquered the Transvaal. Eldoret has one of the British Empire's highest railway stations (7,000 ft.), just north of the Equator. Only 100 mi. to the southwest is vast Lake Victoria. The climate is bracing but wet. The blacks outnumber the whites...
...Major Selwyn went to work. But he did not get along with Boers or blacks; his cattle did not thrive; he could not afford the guards the Boers maintained against native thievery; and finally his old wound began slowly to paralyze him. Four years ago he quit and his wife took over...
...trunks, 50 pieces of hand luggage, a 12th Century Buddha and a $6,000-per-week contract. Awaiting her were a Sherry-Netherland penthouse, a show called Continental Varieties, a brand new night club on the 65th floor of the R. C. A. building, Rockefeller Center. Producers Arch Selwyn and Harold B. Franklin congratulated themselves when, a week before the Varieties opened, every $8.80 seat in the house had been sold. Rockefeller Center was proud of its Rainbow Room, with its high glass walls overlooking the city, its mirrored stage, its color organ which plays a design on the ceiling...
Lady Jane (by H. M. Harwood; Arch Selwyn, Harold B. Franklin, Arthur Hopkins, producers). Playwright Harwood's stock-in-trade is his oblique and theatrical view of marital infidelity. In Lady Jane his premise seems to be that a woman may be unfaithful to her husband without any unhappiness or demoralization to the three people involved, provided one does not know about...
...already excellent array of artistes; to the St. John's Musical Society for suggesting that it deserts its and our, mother tongue for Hungarian; to E. J. P. Raven, for not saying that he was playing the obee in King's when he was and to E. J. Selwyn, for saying that he was when he was not; to Dochmanyi for the omission of his final syllable; to Mrs. Prior, for spelling her name with a y, and to Pini, for the agonizing distortion of his to Pain; and to any other Society or individual to whom the article...