Word: woodley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After All is the work of John van Druten, whose Young Woodley, produced in 1925, was finally allowed to run in London three years after its U.S. presentation. After All is not another Young Woodley. It is the sort of play in which a number of worried English folk go about "facing it." In the case of After All the situations to be faced are a daughter's going off and living with an architect for two years before he marries her; and her brother's unhappy marriage with a poisonous Bohemian. The parents, particularly the mother, accept...
JOHN van Druten's new play, "After All", will be published on December 4, the day after it opens at the Booth Theater in New York City. It is described as a play of family life. Mr. van Druten is also the author of "Young Woodley", which had a successful run in New York in 1925, and of "A Woman on Her Way", a novel published last year by Mr. Knopf...
...Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A quiet glance at the Indian wikiup in Vice President Curtis' office. More formal calls, and Premier Laval moved into the White House for 18 hours of residence and sweating work. On the third day Guest Laval moved to stop overnight at Woodley, sylvan retreat of Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. There the work, ceaseless and secret, went...
Svelte, brunette, born at Boonton, N. J. in 1900, Helen Gahagan took up singing after theatrical successes in Young Woodley and Diplomacy. In Germany and Czechoslovakia she sang in Tosca and the part of free-&-easy Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana, which was her role the fifth night in Cleveland last week...
Racing back into the house, Statesman Stimson snatched up the telephone, tried to get the police. The operator annoyed him with many questions. Ten minutes later three carloads of police arrived, searched "Woodley's" grounds, departed without finding any burglar. Irritated at the police's delay, Secretary Stimson remarked: "If it had been a fire, I'd have been burned up before they got here. . . . Cricket is our hero today...