Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Furies. Murder, for playwrights' profit, is usually a sordid affair, committed in the first act and for no better reason than to provide a culprit for the conjuring author to produce in the last. Not so for Zoe Akins, who wrote The Furies. The news arrives, it is true, in the first act, that somebody has shot John Sands. The second act is given over almost entirely to heartless catechism conducted by a district attorney. The third finds Fifi Sands imprisoned in a skyscraper apartment with the lunatic who, because he had loved Fift and was afraid...
...fatiloquent speculation; here is another's prediction, and logical enough, geologically, anthropologically. But Deluge announces itself not as a prophetic tract on social philosophy, but as romance, thus defying comparison with The Republic of Plato, or More's Utopia, or even Gulliver's Travels. The author does indeed seem to advocate demagogy, and polygamy; does indeed say his say against the established practice of medicine and law, and the fashion of childlessness. But all so casually that the reader need not take him seriously, is in fact far too engrossed with the tale to bother with...
...Author. Poet and editor of the English quarterly, Poetry and the Play, Sydney Fowler Wright, has made a survey of contemporary poetry, and a translation of Dante's Inferno. His friends doubted his finding a publisher for Deluge. Modest, he first printed it at his own expense, and found immediate applause. Fifty three years old, he is father of nine children...
...Author Claude McKay is a Negro. Born in Jamaica of parents who had been abducted from Madagascar, he was sent to the U. S. by a friend to be educated. After two years in college, he washed pots and pans in Harlem, worked on Pullmans and steamers. He wrote most of Home to Harlem while working on docks at London and Marseilles...
EDEN-Murray Sheehan-Dutton ($2). "When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?" The gentleman was Author Murray Sheehan who, so intimately has he delved into the domestic relations of the primates, must certainly have been there. This book, although it lacks the lightness of famed John Erskine...