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...Winslow Boy (by Terence Rattigan; produced by the Theatre Guild, H.M. Tennent Ltd. & John C. Wilson) was in real life named George Archer-Shee. Not quite 40 years ago his story-which Playwright Rattigan has followed pretty faithfully-became a cause célèbre of Edwardian England; some eight years ago Alexander Woollcott made good quick reading matter of it for snack-loving Americans...
...Winslow boy (Michael Newell) is dismissed, at the age of 13, from the British Royal Naval College at Osborne for stealing and cashing another boy's five-shilling postal order. Back home, he insists to his father (Alan Webb) that he is innocent, whereupon his father launches what proves a back-breaking struggle to clear his son's name. For the elder Winslow, in challenging an arm of the British Navy, has not only the law's delays and bureaucratic red tape to contend with, but the Admiralty's withering self-assurance and the House...
...case becomes far more than one of simple justice or family honor: it involves the sacred Anglo-Saxon principle of individual human rights against even the State itself. On that ground, despite an awful drain on his health and purse, young Winslow's father stubbornly hangs on, and finally wins...
Expressing satisfaction in the previous applicants, Lasell invited 20 men to sign up at Phillips Brooks House for a fox-trot contest this Saturday at Winslow Hall, Auburndale...
...farmer trailing home with his scythe at dusk, because she "liked the coloring." It looked very nice in the living room, until a friend of the family happened to suggest she look under the edge of the frame to see if the picture had a signature. It had: Winslow Homer...