SCHOLARSHIP TO AUTHOR.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1938, Page 21

SCHOLARSHIP TO AUTHOR.

N. C. Hunter, author of the play "All Rights Reserved," adapted for the London presentation the Katharine Hilli-ker-H H. Caldwell comedy, "Little Stranger." He has an unusual ability for writing sparkling, witty dialogue, The comedy tells of the upsets caused in a happy English home by the arrival in its midst of an American girl "willed" to his English business associate by an American business man. The young lady arrives by air, and while the family is awaiting her at the station, she enters her new home nonchalantly. In three short days she succeeds in becoming secretly engaged (1) to the woman-hating son of the house, (2) to the adolescent. air-minded boy next door; in being found by the woman of the house in compromising circumstances with the man of the house; in causing the daughter of the house to crown her fiance with a silver tennis cup; and in making the faithful maid of eleven years' service walk about in constant fear of a nervous breakdown; The trans-Atlantic visitation turns out anythine* Vmi<- ciifnoucfnihr -tnv +hp fnmilv

. rru aa i^ rvmnril at a The American Theatre Council, at a sitting in New . York in Jeptjanber. awarded a thousand-dollar scholarship to an author, Stanley Young, who is one of the most promising playwrights, and started a scheme towards restoring legitimate theatres west of Broadway, Mr. Young is a young man of 32 who reviews books for the 'New York Times." He had his first play, Robin Landing," produced last year, and has m preparation a play about Lord Byron ca n ec i "Bright Rebel." He is an Indiana boy . ( anc j j s a n athletic type as well as a sc holarly fellow. Was educated at the University of Chicago, then at c o i U mbia University (where he got a Master's degree), then a year at the university of Munich and another year flt the u n i vers ity of Grenoble, France, He also an instructor in English t wmiams University, teaching as he "Othello at nine o'clock in the m^ning> » The COU ncil met to en- . ° . nrnnol j n /i some ideas for gfv°"^StaS of thlSfin- Amerithe resuscitation ot tne auin* Ameri can theatre but came to very iitue m