Word: authoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tall, sandy-haired, handsome Walther Wilhelm August Ludwig Reinhardt, expert .golfer & tennis player, author of a prize-winning life of George Washington (in German), used to flutter U. S. feminine hearts as German consul in Chicago, Manhattan, Seattle. Last week he was still consul general in Liverpool, England, but the British Government, charging he helped a laborer sell Germans plans of Britain's big shell factory at Euxton, demanded his recall. Sore as hornets at recent expulsions of their inept agents, Nazis threatened reprisals against Britons in Germany if Consul Reinhardt...
Literary kudos came to Author Reinhardt in 1932. While he was consul at Seattle, the Strassburger Foundation to further U. S.-German friendship awarded its $1,000 prize to his terse, lively, human, 367-page Washington biography, The Story of the Making of a Nation. In it Author Reinhardt compared General Washington to Field Marshal von Hindenburg, his all-time hero. Among the literary judges who picked the book were Scientist Albert Einstein, Authors Thomas Mann, Jacob Wassermann, Stefan Zweig. All are now dead or in exile...
Best thing in The Sculptor's Way is Author Putnam's pellucid outline of human and animal anatomy. An acknowledged expert on the subject, she believes that sculptors should know it thoroughly before they go in for compositions in mere "mass" or abstraction. Her favorite point: that any animal's bony structure is essentially the same as man's. A horse's hocks are his heels; birds have knees...
...egomaniac artist, who personifies nihilism, Fascism, middle-class decline, spiritual corruption. Next the doctor founds a "lay order for the conservation of liberalism and decency." Also involved are his friend the cop, an undertaker, a journalist, the Spanish Civil War, a miscellaneous assortment of other People and events-Author Hyams evidently being under the impression that the fantastic and the dramatic are synonymous...
...Author West starts off well, with wit, a nimble imagination, shrewd slants on the social roots of Hollywood's crackpottery. But well before the last scene-a world première which turns into a savage riot-his intended tragedy turns into screwball grotesque, and groggy Author West can Barely distinguish fantastic shadows from fantastic substance. At a similar stage of Tying to get Hollywood on paper, William Saroyan before him merely folded his arms, admitted with rare humility that Hollywood had given him "the smiling heart of an idiot and the good nature of a high-class phony...