John Masefield was a poet, known for his poems of the sea (as a young
man, he was apprenticed aboard a sailing ship) and his narrative poems,
although he also wrote a number of novels. He became Poet Laureate in
1930.
(November 12 to 25, 1923) His play, "Melloney Holtspur," was performed in a Pasadena Community Playhouse production in at the Savoy Theatre Pasadena, California. Gilmor Brown was artistic director. Lenore Shanewise was director.
