Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seventh Heart. This incredibly incomprehensible piece blends music and dubious drama in an expose of what the smart set do at Palm Beach. The most credible thing about it is the rumor that it was produced by the sons of the author, Mrs. Sarah Ellis Hyman, as a tribute to their mother. Electra. Actress Margaret Anglin lately received a gold medal for having "kept her work characteristically pure and noble in nature" (TIME, April 4). Last week she played the part of a Greek woman, Electra who, to avenge her father's death, spurs her brother on to slay their...
...Screams. Not even two blistering screams furnished by the heroine were enough to wake up the gasping plot or the exhausted audience as this play wandered through an unhappy two and a half hours. Stolen pearls, a onetime manicurist protegee were the chief concerns of the Yale dramatic student author...
...Story is told by a small boy whose name is the book's* title. Because his father is a sot, and he thinks people suspect him of knowing a lot about how Mitch Miller (the subject of a novel Author Masters published in 1920) got killed, Kit O'Brien leaves Petersburg, 111., with two of his friends. Hungry, they steal apple pie. His friends get caught, but Kit proceeds, Huck Finn fashion, down the Illinois River into the Mississippi. There on a houseboat he finds Miss Siddons, an impoverished ac tress with a disfigured face, living with a madman. When...
...Significance would be greater if Author Masters had not tried to pack so much significance into a brilliantly told, well constructed boy-story. Like red pepper, alle gory should not be sprinkled so thickly that the reader sneezes. Author Masters brings a little too much of the technique of his poetry to novel-writing, but since his poetry is largely grim and biting realism, this treatment does not dam age his work irreparably...
...Author. The shrewd, pitiless accents of Edgar Lee Masters, who was born in Garnett, Kan., in 1869, were heard in Chicago long before he turned professional poet. He was a trial lawyer with side interests in Democratic politics. Writing poetry was another sideline. His friend, Publisher William Marion Reedy of Reedy's Mirror, refused several of his contributions, but accepted from one "Lester Ford" some subjective epitaphs on imaginary dwellers in an imaginary Illinois town called Spoon River. This "joke" was the beginning of the Spoon River Anthology. But before Spoon River waxed famous, Poet Masters adopted another pseudonym, "Elmer...