Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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FAREWELL TO PARADISE-Frank Thiess-Knopf ($2). To those who have never read him, Author Thiess may be introduced as the hot trumpet in Germany's jazz age. The Gateway to Life (1927) interpreted adolescents; The Devil's Shadow (1928), closed with the picture of its hero setting out for the U. S. as a sort of missionary for a white-slave trust, exulting: "Life is so glorious!" Pillars of Fire (1930) will conclude this tetralogy (4-novel work) whose first work, a prelude to all the rest, is Farewell to Paradise...
...Significance. Like the Booth Tarkington of Penrod, Arthur Thiess is sensitive to the dreams and growth of boys and girls. Unlike the U. S. author, Frank Thiess probes deeply, uncovers with tender hand, like a rose-lover, their straining growth...
...Author. Thin as a rail, Frank Thiess, when high-schooling, tried to look like Abraham Lincoln, his hero. Result: teachers dubbed him idiot. Becoming a famed author, "I loved as passionately as Romeo, hated as intensely as Othello . . . publishers ran after me like hungry chickens. . . . My countrymen disliked my attitude [when] I boxed in public, had photographs with few clothes on in different magazines. ... All my traits were labelled 'American...
David Belasco's It's a Wise Child, by virtue of its title and the presence of Harlan Briggs, spry farceur, should be racy, garrulous. A comedy, Dinner Is Served, by one Alan Mowbray, will include the author in its cast...
...Thomas, playwright, Rube Goldberg and Ring W. Lardner, funnymen. It will serve to frame fat, raucous Trixie Friganza and Jimmy Savo, small comic. A modernized version of A Temperance Town, oldtime comedy by Charles Hoyt, will include incidental tunes. George M. Cohan will smilingly assume the stage as author and actor in Gambling...