Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Curle has been an extensive traveller in South America, the West Indies, Africa, the Near East, Burma, the Malay States, and in other parts of the world. His private collection of manuscripts connected with Conrad and Hudson is unique. He is a sportsman and author as well, among the books he has written being "Joseph Conrad: a Study", "Aspects of George Meredith", "Into the East", "Wanderers", "Shadows Out of the Crowd", and other volumes...
...role made famous by Holbrook Blinn is no less effective, one suspects, than his more famous predecessor. The old uncle is usually amusing but not always convincing in the hands of C. Wordley Hulse. And Morris Carnovsky, as Morgan Pell, the unfortunate husband, is required by the author to confound all plausibility by announcing to his wife that dogs who do not know whom they belong to should be beaton, and wives as well...
...Straton has long been prominent in the country as a leader of the Fundamentalist group in religious controversy. He is the author, among other works, of "The Virgin Birth--Fact or Fiction," "The Dance of Death--Should Christians Indulge?", "Our Relapse Into Paganism", and "The Fall of the Hall of The Age of Man" The last of these is described as "standing revelations concerning the musty old bones that have been juggled and manipulated to prove that man descended from the brutes...
...Author Hutchinson's own view of himself is brightened by the radiant fact that his books do sell, en masse. In this latest, he consumes 448 pages with a halting account of how, after the War, Simon Paris by an unspectacular miracle found "Christ the Common Denominator," and became an active (soapbox preaching) part of the Great Purpose. Nothing is made very clear, except that Simon's two brothers ("Old Niggs" and "Old Charles") were unhappy and he was kind to them. The wife of one was ravishing but gambled and fell ill with smallpox. The wife...
...production is a risk because it is old fashioned. It is a leisurely piece with a purpose. Brieux, French author of the original, is inclined to propaganda (Damaged Goods and The Red Robe). Modern plays have hurried things up be hind the footlights. If they have a sermon to preach they take care to cast it in intensive words and action. Accused is largely argument, brilliant and searching argument to be sure, but developed in long paragraphs...