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Playwright Robert Cedric Sherriff, 35, (Journey's End) announced his intention of matriculating as an undergraduate at Oxford University next autumn. Reason : "Then if I fizzle out as a writer, I shall be qualified to turn my hand to something else-possibly schoolmastering...
...English Channel, now a millionaire French planemaker; Squadron Leader Augustus H. Orlebar, holder of the world's speed record (357.7 m. p. h.); Flight Lieut. H. R. D. Waghorn, winner of the Schneider Cup (1929). Wingless heroes included Herbert Wilbur ("Bunny") Austin, British tennis player; Robert Cedric Sherriff, insurance broker, author of Journey's End; John L. Baird, inventor of the first practical television apparatus...
Journey's End (Tiffany). Many difficulties confronted the small but ambitious and able Tiffany-Stahl Productions in making a cinema of Robert Cedric Sherriff's famed play. It is a play containing a remote love-interest, but without a woman in the cast and without the possibility of allowing the entrance of any, unless Captain Stanhope's unseen sweetheart should ride through the lines in a coach, like Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac. Furthermore, it offers no chance for photography. All the action takes place in the dugout of the officers of C Company; any scenes taken...
Journey's End (Tiffany). Many difficulties confronted the small but ambitious and able Tiffany-Stahl Productions in making a cinema of Robert Cedric Sherriff's famed play. It is a play containing a remote love-interest, but without a woman in the cast and without the possibility of allowing the entrance of any, unless Captain Stanhope's unseen sweetheart should ride through the lines in a coach, like Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac. Furthermore, it offers no chance for photography. All the action takes place in the dugout of the officers of C Company; any scenes taken outside this setting...
London papers carried a business announcement last week of the formation of a new corporation, to be known as R. C. Sherriff Ltd. "to acquire the copyright of all and any existing and future literary, dramatic, and artistic works of R. C. Sherriff and to carry on the business of publishers and booksellers." Capital: $5,000. Directors: R. C. Sherriff, Mrs. Sherriff, E. Tudor Mash...