Word: trelawney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Friday, the thirteenth of June, 1823, Byron sailed from London in his crazy round-bottomed tub, the "Hercules." "They all say I can be of use to Greece," he wrote to Trelawney, "I do not know how--nor do they; but, at all events, let us go." Ypsilanti lay festering in Metternich's Austrian oubliette, but to Byron's sanguine hope the prospect was bright. George Gordon, Lord Byron, and the Hetairia Philike, that secret sodality of Hellenic patriots, should make Greece free...
...young blood and rename the troupe "The Good Companions." The last scene of the act comes off splendidly. There is an authentic esprit-de-corps to this ill-assorted group of broken-down actors and novices, a rather poignant spirit that can be recalled in parallel scenes in "Trelawney of the Wells...