Birth of a Salesman man's $500, and quietly slips it into Mrs Ed's handbag while she sleeps, resolving to put a stop to his son's arrogance right away. Birth of a Salesman "Birth of a Salesman" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared in the United States in the 26 March 1950 issue of "This Week" magazine. Part of the "Blandings Castle" canon, it features the absent-minded peer Lord Emsworth, and was included in the collection "Nothing Serious" (1950). The story's title is a play on "Death of a Salesman", the now-classic stageplay by Arthur Miller, which had won a
The Death of Tintagiles fails. The Imaginary Beasts Theater Company of Boston, Massachusetts, performs a rare production of this play in October and November, 2012, at the Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Theaters. "The Death of Tintagiles" was the subject of a symphonic poem written in 1897 by Charles Martin Loeffler. It was scored for full orchestra and two viole d'amore, which represent the voices of Tintagiles and Ygraine. The revised version, which has been commercially recorded, has only one viola d'amore. In 1913, Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote incidental music for the play. Three years earlier Bohuslav Martinů wrote an orchestral work for