Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irish Rose in 1922. That theatrical miracle, thoroughly damned by critics, struggled along at cut-rate prices for six months, then suddenly got second wind and ran for five years on Broadway, setting an all-time record of 2,532 performances. Abie's Irish Rose made Play wright Nichols an estimated $6.000,000. In California, where she still putters at playwriting and raises alligator pears, she no longer requires a staff of auditors to keep track of her royalties, but a stock company was playing Abie in Belgium last week when Pre-Honeymoon made its inauspicious Broadway appearance...
...boarding-school, a maliciously insane little girl, and an unsuccessful libel suit are the ingredients of "These Three", now at the University Theatre. Miriam Hopkins and Merle Oberon run the school in an old farmhouse that had belonged to Karen Wright's (Miss Oberon) grandmother. When Mary Tillford (Bonita Granville), a problem child and granddaughter of the community's most prominent matron, fabricates a scandal about the conduct of her attractive young school-mistresses with handsome Dr. Joseph Cardin (Joel McCrea), rich mamas and papas withdraw their patronage. A libel suit to bring the matter out into the air miscarries...
...Development: Wilbur C. Abbott, The Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell; Paul R. Doolin, The Constitutional Conflict in France in the 17th and 18th Centuries; Donald C. McKay, A History of the Third French Republic, 1871-1914; Charles H. Taylor, Representative Practices in 13th Century France; and Benjamin F. Wright, Jr., Judicial Review of Legislation by the Supreme Court...
Last week a deaf old lady checked out of a small hotel in Lewisburg, Pa. after seven months of seclusion there, returned quietly to Manhattan. Remaining in seclusion unrelieved was her 69-year-old husband, Joseph Wright Harriman. onetime socialite banker, whose exploits in dementia during his criminal trial three years ago scarcely equaled those by which he put his Harriman National Bank & Trust Co. into the red and finally into receivership in 1933. As prison librarian at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, Convict Harriman had ample opportunity last week to read in the Press of the embarrassments his bank caused...
...Wasp 1830 so much that it has ordered 200, banned their export. Last week's demonstration was in the nature of a release for U. S. commercial use. United Airlines, which sets as much store by Pratt & Whitney power plants as American Airlines does by the famed Wright Cyclones, has ordered 26 of the 1830's for its fleet of 24-passenger Douglas sleeper planes (TIME, March...