Word: thirtyish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Executive Director Blau, an amiable, dark-haired little man of the age the English call "thirtyish," is a native of Nagy-varod, Hungary. He has spent most of his life in the U. S. For eight years he taught Economics at the College of the City of New York. As a certified public accountant he had as a client the Theatre Guild, for which he devised a "fiscal week" sys tem. Each Saturday night the books were closed, reckoning made. Systematizing backstage procedure, he fell naturally into stage managing. Goat Song and Androcles and the Lion were...
...dramatization of his novel, which attracted by it? By its clinical title, and was swept into the ephemeral list of bestsellers. The play opened last week in Manhattan after a happy spell (with a Hollywood cast) on the Pacific coast (TIME, Oct. 29). Mary Boyd (Ann Davis) the "thirtyish" but personable wife of George Boyd (Allan Dinehart) is apprised, by her meddling mother (Elizabeth Patterson), of Boyd's unfaithfulness. To Rochester he has gone on a business trip, accompanied by Christine Kennedy (Helen Flint); openly he has carried on the affair with Christine. But Mary stills her mother's blabbing...
...many "soulless" people in the world. Corollary: U. S. civiliza- tion is largely to blame. Somewhere in China a childlike Briton, Clifford Cotton, with a witchlike mother and Daley, his healthy-animal wife from California, perceives Wisdom in the dull eyes, lean frame and tired voice of a thirtyish English girl, Lena, an itinerant musician who stops in his house to have a touch of pleurisy. In addition to being childlike, Clifford is some kind of fairy changeling. Lena's dose of Wisdom, combined with an effect of moonlight on mountains, subjects him to an experience that is meant...