Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alison Skipworth is reliably funny as our old harpy. One Mary Robinson enacts as tough a creature as is permissible without frightening the audience. Donald Ogden Stewart, author of mad literature, writes herein his first lines for the stage and rouses occasional uproar...
...Author, Dancer Duncan, was born in 1880. Her life shows equally the influence of iced oysters, champagne, and her uneasy but auspicious star. Having composed this detailed and candid history, she planned to follow it with a volume about a trip to Russia?for which "I would hail a New World," was a sort of preface. This second volume she did not accomplish. When she had finished My Life, in the spring of 1927, she prepared to spend the remainder of the summer at her Riviera villa. This lady who had danced a thousand times with a veil waving...
...Author was born 43 years ago in Munich. His youth was spent learning about philosophy and literature among the wide avenues and beer gardens of Munich and Berlin. In 1905 he organized a cabal for the furtherance of modern literature ? an institution which was glared at by the fishy eyes of Imperialism. His plays ? especially Vasantasena which played 1000 times in eight years? made his reputation in Germany. The Ugly Duchess, published in England in the able and sensitive translation which is now to be released in the U. S., became vastly popular as had Author Feuchtwanger...
...LIGHT BEYOND? E. Phillips Oppenheim?Little, Brown ($2). All of Author Oppenheim's 100 previous novels have possessed that first and most important element of good or even of great novels, plots which, if not airtight, will at least hold the swift and perishable liquid of a reader's excitement. His technique has not yet vanished. The Light Beyond is about three of the most important countries in the world, represented each by one or two enormously, incredibly potent individuals. By the time that a London war conference has revealed the (imaginary) iniquities of teutonic schemes for indemnity avoidance...
...BRONZE TREASURY-Edited by Harry Kemp-Macaulay ($3). Thomas Tusser, Soame Jenyns, Richard Yago, Theophile Marzials, Selwyn Image- even the name of the 78 minor poets in this anthology of the obscure, like their lives and their verses, are strange, flimsy and exciting. Author Kemp is sensitive to the fine moments when, for each, mediocre talent burned suddenly with an unsteady brighter flame. He writes their brief biographies with understanding and sympathy, better than he wrote his own and similar biography with its perhaps ironic title, Tramping on Life. For him these not great but very gracious poems have...