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Last October, the publishing world talked about an unhappy coincidence. Simultaneously with publication in Vanity Fair, monthly smartchart, of a savage burlesque on Frances Newman's novel, The Hard-boiled Virgin, Death came to Authoress Newman. Vanity Fair was embarrassed. Last week came another such occurrence, less embarrassing, no less unhappy. Several months ago a young aviatrix submitted a manuscript to Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis's The Country Gentleman. It was called "My Life For Aviation." Editor Philip Sheridan Rose accepted the story, changed its title to ''How I Learned to Fly," ordered...
...Willy" (Novelist Henry Gauthiers-Villars) and of Biographer Henry de Jouvenel (The Stormy Life of Mirabeau, TIME, Aug. 5). Now free and 56, she is short, wellrounded, long-eyed. She likes good food, the Mediterranean, the wildcats she keeps in her small but colorful Palais Royal flat. In literature Authoress Colette is distinguished for presenting the human side of animals, the animal side of humans...
...does not need to have stories written for her or to know how to act. Elinor Glyn was hired to make up some thing about a bride who gets out of her husband's stateroom on the wedding morning, but the plot is halfhearted, as though its famed authoress were conscious that her fatuities were required simply for the sake of convention. It is a picture for people who like love on yachts and among the members of High Society. Billie Dove, beautifully dressed, dark-eyed, slightly abstracted, seems only remotely concerned with it. Silliest shot: frustrated...
...Book-of-the-Month Club's July selection (see above). The Literary Guild's was The Wave. Acclaimed a work of genius, The Wave succeeds in being at least unusual. Its 625 pages rehearse the Civil War without telling a connected story, but through 90 separate "stories." Authoress Scott's purpose: to make an impressionistic panorama of people then and how they felt. Her method recalls John Brown's Body, the Civil War in blank verse by Stephen Vincent Benét. Like Poet Benét, Authoress Scott did her writing in foreign countries...
Sued. Eugene O'Neill, playwright; by Gladys Adelina Selma ("Georges Lewys") Lewis, authoress; for $1,125,000. Her charge: that Playwright O'Neill "stole" plot and characters for his nine-act Strange Interlude from her privately-printed novel The Temple of Pallas Athenae (1924). Playwright O'Neill, in the South of France, cabled: "Never heard of book mentioned. Person must be crazy...