Word: authoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going somewhere; but it never arrives. The best sketches-satires on Eleanor Roosevelt, parlor games, rabid Wagnerians-are full of fun but not really funny. The best lyrics trip off the tongue but do not lodge in the mind. The performers are gay and bright but, except for Author Hamilton and Brenda Forbes, have no more individuality than a buck private's uniform...
...courageous enough to retain the meaning of the original. In the case of Idiot's Delight, this agitation was augmented by the fact that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, after almost deciding that Idiot's Delight was too dangerous to touch, finally not only made it but hired its author, Robert Sherwood, to adapt it himself, and released it just after it had stopped exporting its products to Italy...
...avoid insulting Italians as to have its military characters talk Esperanto. The picture indicts nothing except war in general, and does even this halfheartedly. This caution, however, is not due primarily to Hollywood's reluctance to offend, but merely to its intense eagerness to make profits. Author Sherwood, as familiar with the screen as he is with the stage, was well aware that no ideology this side of Heaven is nearly as important to cinema audiences as the spectacle of Clark Gable embracing Norma Shearer for the first time since they both appeared in Strange Interlude (1932). Consequently...
...sheer ugliness of disposition he has come far." Also in the book was a sketch of Treasury Secretary Ogden Mills, much of which was lifted from a defunct magazine called The Washingtonian. Pearson had edited The Washingtonian for two issues, and obtained permission from Rixey Smith, author of the Mills piece, to use the material. Later he sent Smith a check for $50. But the Washingtonian had been published with the required statutory notice of copyright. When Mrs. Blair Banister, The Washingtonian's ex-publisher, learned how things stood she filed copies of the magazine with the Copyright Office...
Mumberd is the author of "Teachers and Civilities" and more recently, "The Culture of the Cities...