Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each country offered its wares. Jacinto Benavente, author of "The Passion Flower" and "The Bonds of Interest," and recognized as the chief of living Spanish dramatists, wrote "The Governor's Wife", which the Dramatic Club produced in 1919. The brilliantly designed scenery, done by Donald Oenslager '23--now with the Actors' Theatre in New York--attracted much notice. This was the first of several productions for which Oenslager made the stage sets...
Encouraged by the reception of "Beranger," the Dramatic Club now turned to one of the centuries most lertilo in the materials or art and especially the art of the theatre Russia. Leonid Andreyev's the "Life of Man" was the next production. Written by the author of "He Who Gets Slapped" it contained the germs of that play and was held by Andreyev to be the better of the two. Andreyev critics however have disagreed with him on that point, it was an ultramodern play and received ultramodern treatment. New York heard of this latest importation and wanted...
...went back to his Los Angeles boarding house. Next door lived a gentle Chinaman, who sold fruit and groceries. Perhaps this grocer was a relative of the Chinaman in London who sold ginger and started Author Thomas Burke on his notable career as the biographer of the Limehouse District. Perhaps not. But he soothed sad young Mr. Chrisman, by answering questions, telling stories...
WINNIE-THE-POOH-A. A. Milne -Dutton ($2). Another man A lately made grown-ups furtive Author Alan Alexander Milne of Cotchford Farm, Hartfield, Sussex (not far from Artist Rackham's beech tree). He used to be (1906-14) an editor of Punch. He fought all through the War and got back safely to tell stories to his son, Christopher Robin, who encouragred his father (by asking for more) to write a book of jingles called When We Were Very Young (1924). Writing things was nothing new for Author Milne. He had had plays of his played both sides...
...Drifter, author of acid comments published weekly in the Nation, has made out a ledger sheet for the sings and saving graces of these United States. He lists forty six assets and sixty four liabilities and hints that had he not been hampered by limitations of space be could have gone on with the latter indefinitely; the credit column is, he regrets, practically complete. Among the assets are found such peculiarly. American contributions to world contentment as bathrooms, the New York theatre, bobbed hair, rebellious undergraduates, one piece bathing suits, Beacon Bill on Christmas Eve, and the Marx brothers...