PRIESTLEY (John Boynton, 1894-1984, Dramatist, Novelist and Critic)

Typed Letter Signed to the impresario Anmer Hall, (1863-1953, pseudonym of Alderson Burrell Horne), thanking him "for your two notes ... Everybody else last night seemed to enjoy it too, though I gather from this morning's papers that nobody enjoyed it ... Anyhow ... I do feel I owe most to the two brilliant people you so kindly lent me", he "met your dramatist, Bridie" (James, 1888-1951), "up in Glasgow last week and liked him", 1 side 9" x 7", 3 The Grove, Highgate Village, N.6, 18th May

'Dangerous Corner', 17th May 1932, was Priestley's first play, written partly to show that a novelist could write a good stage play with economy of means. It was directed at the London Lyric Theatre by Tyrone Guthrie, who had been directing Anmer Hall's company at the Festival Theatre, Cambridge. After three days it was due to be withdrawn but Priestley bought out the syndicate and it ran for six months.

Item Date:  1932

Stock No:  54682      £125

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