Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name of "Schriftst," eagle-eyed Princeton scholars pounced upon its editors, learned they had taken the information from Who's Who in America, whose editors in turn had it from Thomas Mann himself. He had filled out a form: "Mann, Thomas. Schriftst. [abbreviation of Schriftsteller, German for 'author...
When Barry attempts to sum up his allegory of good and evil in words, and to affirm man's redemption through his own powers of godliness, it is all too plainly the author speaking, not the characters. If this summing up is bad because of its clumsy preaching, it is also bad because its very explicitness shatters a mood whose strength lies in its eerie, wordless power of suggestion. Barry's people, never quite real, can haunt the audience as unhappy spectres; as stock symbols in a morality play, they merely irritate...
...Author. At 42, with 17 plays behind him, Philip Barry is one of the most unclassifiable of U. S. dramatists. He earned his greatest popularity with such smart comedies as Holiday and Paris Bound. But he is most warmly admired by the elect for an ironic fantasy, White Wings. And he has most thoroughly puzzled and stimulated theatre-goers with his mystical play, Hotel Universe, in its intentions something of a precursor to Here Come the Clowns. Two contradictory kinds of talent are apt to keep Barry from ever becoming a cut-to-measure playwright : on the one hand...
...Derrydale Press. Offices of The Derrydale Press are a paneled dining room in an old brownstone mansion off Manhattan's Park Avenue. Unforewarned, an old-line author would probably think he had stumbled into the home of some eccentric country gentleman. Like as not he would be sniffed by a bird dog. On the reception table is sometimes a bag of quail. The stenographer keeps her clips and pins in a dry-fly box. The bookkeeper uses a dipsy (sinker) for a paperweight...
...knew sportsmen like a book. His first publication was a book of sketches, priced at $7.50, which he peddled himself. Booksellers took one look-an unknown publisher, an unknown author, an unheard-of price!-and wrote him off as crazy. Publisher Connett, a serene glitter in his eye, was not crazy at all. For men who paid $500 for a gun, $75 for a fishing rod, $250 for a dog, $1,500 for a horse, said he, Derrydale prices were chicken feed. He was right. Derrydale books sold just as well at $25, $50, $125. Last year Connett sold...