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...Messages of congratulations came in from President Hoover, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, many a university president. Among famed alumni of Washington University are Taftian Secretary of Commerce & Labor Charles Nagel. Coolidgian Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, Senators Roscoe Conklin Patterson and Harry Bartow Hawes, Publisher Conde Nast, Authoress Fannie Hurst, Missouri's present Governor Henry Stewart Caulfield. Washington has the West's richest university art collection (over...
...Good Earth was picked, said the prize-awarding committee, "for its epic sweep, its distinct and moving characterization, its sustained story-interest, its simple and yet richly colored style." The choice was doubly happy for Authoress Buck. A few days prior had been published her third novel, The Young Revolutionist...
...Author. Though her first novel East Wind, West Wind (1929) passed comparatively unnoticed, Authoress Buck's second, The Good Earth, has taken the public's fancy to the tune of 22 printings, has recently been dramatized by Owen Davis & Son Donald, will be presented by the Theater Guild next autumn. A good tale, though of lesser scope, The Young Revolutionist, depicting Chinese idealism swing Christ-wards, will be many a missionary's meat. Mrs. Buck's Virginia parents, named Sydenstricker, were missionaries. She was born in China. Her husband heads Nanking University's farm management department. She well knows...
CAPTAIN ARCHER'S DAUGHTER-Mar-garet Deland-Harper ($2.50). Starting at a gallop Authoress Deland's novel, her first since 1926, slows down when she forces the story round the same track twice, in order to reiterate its theme. Even with this change of pace the story is worth telling; its author's graceful, polished competence makes the telling true to romance...
...officers' orderlies at Toulon. After a time their colonel is transferred to Palestine, and in that Holy Land, now cursed with war, Christophe's agonizing pity, half-realized intimations, grow too intense. Tenderly, as if she were unfolding clouds behind which glory shines, Authoress Hall recounts how Christophe goes out one night with a patrol; how he wanders from the others, possessed with his vision; how, holding his silver rood before him, he walks up to an enemy patrol, is taken, stripped, spat on, and crucified against a door. The Author. Authoress Radclyffe Hall's maiden poetic...