Word: authoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many a playgoer as a dramatization of Victoria Lincoln's popular novel, February Hill (1934). First mentioned for production by Sam H. Harris in 1935, the play went unproduced for three years, after a Fall River, Mass, woman, charging that February Hill maligned members of her family, sued Author Lincoln for $100,000. So far the case has not come to trial...
After a Parisian judge had failed to settle their differences, Actress Jacqueline Delubac started divorce proceedings against her husband, famed Actor-Author Sacha Guitry. Meanwhile, the theatre receipts almost doubled as they continued to make love to each other night after night in Un Monde Fou ("A Mad World...
Latest such old wife's tale is Madeleine Boyd's novel, Life Makes Advances (Little, Brown, $2.75), by the separated wife (now a Manhattan literary agent) of an elegant Manhattan ex-critic. While husband's and wife's names are fictitious, Author Boyd confesses the characters are real...
...sour on life that it takes 432 pages for John Wesley Beaven, one of the nicest, cleanest, bravest medical students ever to flay a corpse, to convince the Professor that doctors must be gentle as well as skillful. John Wesley's own life is leavened by what Author Douglas calls his "process of orientation" to Lan Ying ("orchid"), an American girl brought up as a Chinese...
Since Don Juan, however sinful, is most attractive character, many an author has used the legend. There are variants by Molière, Shadwell, Mozart, Mérimée Dumas père, Byron, Balzac, Shaw. Not overanxious to compete with such a talented gallery, yet fascinated by the violent Don, Sylvia Townsend Warner decided to take the matter up where the others had left off-with Don Juan's damnation. And so she wrote After the Death of Don Juan (Viking...