Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Philadelphia Revelry had its first night. Dramatized by Maurine Watkins (author of the play Chicago) from a novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams, it purported to reveal the degeneracies and deceptions to which the U. S. Government descended during the Harding administration. Said a critic: "It tells a sordid story of misplaced trust and unseemly gorging at the public treasury...
...novel, The Garden of Allah, sold to over a million copies. Made into a play in 1911 by the author in collaboration with Mary Anderson (actress-author), it ran for two seasons in the Century Theatre, Manhattan; for three seasons in London...
...promise did not actually come true because Mr. McAndrew, though suspended, has yet to be tried. And none is more eager for his trial than himself. He will be defended by Lawyer Angus Roy Shannon, author of the Illinois law under which the Chicago school system operates. His defense will set forth that the intention of the law was to make the superintendent of Chicago's schools, not a "hired man" of Chicago's school board, but an executive which the board is required to appoint, drawing an independent authority from the same source that created the school...
...advances of young men on the tops of busses, carries her notes in a neat handbag and would sooner sit home and read in the evenings than gad about at dance places?unless her girl chum is in town. To thousands and thousands of such young women any generous author of light fiction should feel a lasting debt of gratitude. Very well, then, such shall be Mr. Oppenheim's heroine; her name, just plain Edith Brown...
...Author. Mr. Oppenheim modestly disclaims credit for his so popular work and pretends that he does not aim to please. He says: "I do not know how a novel will develop when I begin it. I get a vision of about two good characters?the man, he's the main thing, and the woman, very secondary. These two elements, together with my first chapter, constitute my preparation. Then I live with my characters for a while?eat with them, walk with them, play golf with them. Finally they begin to act according to their own wills; then I let them...