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...Manhattan novelist who has a paramour in her publisher's office. Unfortunately her old friend and sister authoress, Peggy Wood, has a young daughter who takes the paramour's eye and eventually his heart. In three acts full of adroit handkerchief work Cowl runs a gamut of politely contained emotions and achieves resignation in the end-with the help of old acquaintance. At one point, where she snuffles back her tears, she brings off a little masterpiece of nasal dramatics. Meanwhile Peggy Wood has given a witty picture of a blonde, bird-brained, overdressed, likeable soul...
...When Authoress Helen Keller made her annual shopping trip to the Manhattan Christmas sale of articles made by the blind, she received from the hands of Abraham Kreisworth, blind and deaf like herself, a hand-hammered copper tray which he had made especially for her. Miss Keller's purchases showed a partiality for blue, which "represents peace." and yellow, "symbol of sunshine...
...Eleanor Carroll Chilton & Philip Lewis, produced by Otis Chatfield-Taylor). One of the hardest things in the drama is to make the fires of a purely interior, mental hell apparent to an audience. Usually only the greatest playwrights, the Ibsens and Chekhovs, can do it. Fledgling, adapted from Authoress Chilton's novel Follow the Furies, does it, though it is hardly a great play. It also does other, much less admirable things-confuses its central tragedy with subplots and religious argument in the manner of old-fashioned "problem plays." But the hell remains visible, registers hard...
...home as a boarder. She was not the first. Marian soon discovered that Chapman made a practice of renting room's to women who could distract him mentally while their board contributed to the upkeep of his publishing business. Marian had been preceded by the authoress of a learned novel on ancient Egypt who was known to her enemies as Miss Sennacherib. Co-boarding with Miss Sennacherib was Miss Tilley, who acted as the mistress of Chapman and the governess of his children. There was also Mrs. Chapman...
...flames under Shelley's fish-eaten, livid corpse. Said Trelawny: "I restore to nature, through fire, the elements of which this man was composed. . . ." Said Byron: "Why, Trelawny . . . you do it very well." But when Trelawny handed Mary Shelley her husband's "little black shrivelled" heart, the authoress of Frankenstein was horrified...