Word: selwyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bachelor Born (by Ian Hay; produced by Milton Shubert in association with Ruth Selwyn). Since the recent razzing in London of You Can't Take It With You (last year's Pulitzer Prize comedy), and the lukewarm reception of several English comedies in Manhattan, drama authorities have been cogitating once again the old question: What is the difference between English and American humor? British fun, according to British Authorities J. B. Priestley and Charles Morgan, is more subdued; Yankee fun is more roistering. By all the rules, Bachelor Born, which was a hit in London (under the title The Housemaster...
...until last week did the long, arduous and honorable public career of Sir Selwyn Macgregor Grier become notable to the rest of the British Empire. Son of an English vicar, Sir Selwyn won intramural fame as a classical scholar at Cambridge, spent four years as a humble schoolmaster before entering the British colonial service in Nigeria in 1906. While in West Africa he rose from Assistant Resident, Northern Nigeria to Director of Education of the Southern Provinces. By last week he was safe in comfortable anonymity as King George's representative in St. Vincent, British West Indies. Last week...
Sweeping aside Kingstown's few policemen, hoodlums tore through the streets, caught Governor Grier squarely in front of the courthouse. Only by promising to meet and talk with the strike leaders was Sir Selwyn released, but jabbering blacks wrecked his car as well as those of Supreme Court Judge Williams and Attorney General Ross...
Revenge with Music (words & music by Howard Dietz & Arthur Schwartz; Selwyn & Franklin, producers). Given settings by Albert Johnson, costumes by Constance Ripley, dance ensembles by Michael Mordkin and orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett, the Princeton Triangle Club could put on a show which could hold its own with Revenge with Music. An expensive production by four of the leading technicians of the musical stage is all that really distinguishes the book and music by Schwartz & Dietz from something which might have been turned out for the McCarter Theatre...
Conversation Piece (words & music by Noel Coward; Arch Selwyn & Harold B. Franklin, producers). Like race horses, playwrights are handicapped according to their past performances. If Conversation Piece were the work of a newcomer, critics would probably have acclaimed it as bright, charming entertainment, brimming with wit. tinkling with melody. But versatile Noel Coward has done better before. Matched with This Year Of Grace or Bitter Sweet, the latest Coward musical piece is at a disadvantage...