Word: tanqueray
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Circle wears well because it offers no dated problem in morals, but a permanent reflection on human nature. The Woman with a Past who had darkened the drawing room of Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan and Pinero's The Second Mrs. Tanqueray was no such baleful figure for Maugham. If Lady Kitty has a mission, it is to avert tragedy, not foment it. But knowing human beings, Maugham cynically foils her, shows how the sins of the mothers, far from being visited upon succeeding generations, become their copybook maxims. And knowing the theatre as well, Maugham...
Died. Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, 79, British playwright (Trelawney of the Wells and 53 others); after an operation; in London. He shocked London with The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, helped shake the British theatre out of its pre-Ibsen fustiness...
...capable, dinner-coated stock character Lieut. Valcour. Inspector Ellery & staff turn the theatre upside down, invade the musicians' room, wardrobe room, property room, and even, amid terrified squeals, the backstage quarters of the naked ladies of the ensemble. They question everyone: unholy Siebenkase (Bela Lugosi of Dracula); Madame Tanqueray, the wren-like wardrobe mistress; bug-eyed Billy Slade, impersonated by Ben Lackland. As usual, Mr. Lackland is playing the part of a rich young man with a Lot to Explain. All the giggling girls, comics and doormen have been interviewed when Inspector Ellery comes at last to the temperamental...