Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Octoroon. Hissing the villain and shouting directions to the hero came back into vogue with the revival of After Dark a few months ago, at Christopher Morley's Theatre in Hoboken (see above). This is another by the author of After Dark. Dragged from its pre-war (Civil) dust and presented on Broadway, its thunderous plot is played "straight" by a capable cast. For those who can get enjoyment out of making fun of abandoned sentimentalities, it provides a pleasant evening...
...obsession on Alexander's part for Helen of Troy, and fulfillment in the arms of Darius's young and neglected wife. The two leading roles are well enough played by Henry Hull and A. E. Anson, who might have made a very fine play of it hadthe author everdecided what he wanted...
Ausable Forks, New York, March 20--Charging that the Harvard School of Business Administration's award of the Bok Advertising Prizes was "clearly and frankly in the class with dog and cattle shows," Rockwell Kent, famous author, artist, and adventurer, today stated that his only purpose in demanding the entire $1000 voted by the Bok-Harvard Prize Jury to Marcus and Co., Jewelers, for an advertisement featuring his work, was to erect a Sacco-Vanzetti Memorial "as near as possible to Mr. Baker's Harvard Business School...
This constitutes the second round in the controversy, the first having featured Mr. Kent's return to Marcus and co. of a check for $500 of the prize money on the grounds that the terms of the awards clearly signified Mr. Bok's intention of honoring the author or designer of the advertisements rather than the firm using them...
...response to a question as to what steps a young author should take to acquire style, Mr. Wilder said. "Style is a by-product of personality, and in my opinion nothing can harm the notation of one's personality, which is style, so much as the technical study of organization, paragraphing, periodic sentences, and specific details. The technical side of style should be learned almost unconsciously on the tide of one's tremendous nourishing enthusiasm for certain authors of one's own choice