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...Authoress Young wrote in William a delightful and astute account of modern family life. Her present attempt is less successful, the story thin in spite of engaging characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vicar, 20th Century | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Died. Sarah Barnwell Elliott, 80, southern suffragist & authoress, daughter of Bishop Stephen Elliott; in Sewanee, Tenn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...pages. But it shall be revealed that the mistress (Margaret Livingston) meets a painful end. She was a bad woman who drove dozens of men to roulette and worse. In fact, the district attorney himself once thought of butchering her. The story is typical of the heart-twitchings of Authoress Fannie Hurst. There is a subtitle in it: "Life, like roulette, is a game of chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Talkies | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

BUT?GENTLEMEN MARRY BRUNETTES ?Anita Loos?Boni & Liveright ($2.00). Well, it seems that nothing makes a publisher become so sentimental in a financial way as the day he can call an authoress a best seller. I mean, a writer of the well-read books. I mean, he will give anything for more of my thoughts, because they seem to have intreeged the interest of people that pay for literature. And since I seem to be thinking all the time anyway, I might just as well not be doing it for nothing, and write it down. And anyway a married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pervading Sadness | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

This threat of the consequences of a machine-mad age is most engaging. But more of a piece with the author's widely read A Passage to India is the title story. An elderly authoress returns to the Swiss village that she has made famous through one of her stories, finds that the lanky porter-guide whose impulsive love she had rebuffed years before has turned into a paunchy obsequious concierge. To her horror she realizes that she has loved the man all these years, and that it is her fault he and his village have become so disgustingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Punch Another | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

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