Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asked her father if anyone was planning to celebrate. When he said no, she said: "Why don't you do it, Daddy?" That got him started. He picked the Flushing marshes because he lived near them, in Jackson Heights. He does not consider $45,000 an inordinate author's royalty for a project costing...
...Newshawks who few weeks ago reported that Germany's famed folk song, Heinrich Heine's Lorelei, had been banned because its author was a Jew, discovered that Dr. Ley had nonetheless named his newborn daughter Lore...
Pygmalion delighted both critics and cinemaddicts in England, where it has been playing for seven weeks. It is likely to delight U. S. critics and cinemaddicts. More significant, it pleased its own author. Heretofore adamant in refusing to sell cinema rights of his plays (with the exception of two shorts: How He Lied to Her Husband, Arms and the Man), Bernard Shaw not only helped write the script for Pygmalion but agreed to let Producer Pascal film all his other plays. Producer Pascal will soon start work on Caesar and Cleopatra...
...Effect of Bran on Humans and the Effect of Humans on Bran is not yet a book, but it is the working title of a piece of research which early next year will be offered to the medical profession by one of its greatest bran enthusiasts. Its author is Dr. Bernard Fantus, professor of therapeutics of the University of Illinois' medical school. Eighteen years ago, before the profession in general had really begun its modern investigation of cathartics, the American Medical Association published a handbook on the subject written by Dr. Fantus. One of its chapters was on bran...
...demonstration that What Price Glory? had known, uptown, ten years before. The play was Waiting for Lefty, by Clifford Odets. Two months later. Lefty was running full blast in one Broadway theatre, Odets' Awake and Sing! in another, and critics were writing elaborate Sunday articles about the author. The Left theatre had become an exciting reality for people in no wise Left-minded, and when 28-year-old Odets was not being hailed as the Boy Wonder of the U. S. theatre, he was being acclaimed as its White Hope...