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Born 50 years ago in Dublin, Sean O'Casey did not learn to read until he was 12. He earned his bread selling news papers, grew up to be a bricklayer's helper, a stonebreaker and dock hand. Like R. C. Sherriff (Journey's End), he became interested in the theatre through a group of amateurs. "Everyone was getting tired of the Abbey plays," says he. "so I decided to write one for them." The amateurs as well as the Abbey turned the play down, but William Butler Yeats wrote an en couraging letter. O'Casey...
...SHERRIFF (R.C.) Journey's End a Novel...
...FORTNIGHT IN SEPTEMBER-R. C. Sherriff-Stokes...
Thanks largely to the homilists, simple human goodness is out of style. To modern eyes it appears too simple to be good, too good to be true. Novelist Sherriff, better known as the playwright of Journey's End, thinks differently. His book goes to show that simple human goodness has its practically seamless sides...
...years they had stayed at Mrs. Hugget's lodging-house at Bognor on the sea. Though Mrs. Hugget's place, since the death of her husband, showed more shabbiness than gentility, the Stevenses were faithful once again. With meticulous detail Author Sherriff recounts their departure from London, the thrilling railway journey, their stay in Bognor. Nothing happens except that for two weeks they all breathe free. Their mutual affection, having survived the cooping of their poor city life, turns outward to the world at large. Mr. Stevens meets old cronies at the pub; Dick has an inspiration...