Word: authority
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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London. Early this year beef-eating Yorkshireman John Boynton Priestley, author of best-selling novels (The Good Companions, Angel Pavement), several U. S. stage flops, one hit (Dangerous Corner), stood up to the almighty British Broadcasting Corp., calling it monopolistic and its programs a bore. Fortnight ago BBC commissioned a novel for serial broadcasting, 20 minutes every Sunday. Commissioned novelist: J. B. Priestley. The radio novel, Let the People Sing, was reported to be another cross-sectioning of British life like The Good Companions...
...Blurbled she: "I read a book last night until 2:30 a. m. That doesn't happen very often to me. . . ." Sleep-murdering novel: Again the River (still in galley proofs), a story of floods and the people who fight them or get drowned in them. Author: Stella E. Morgan, a West Virginia housewife. Again the River is her first novel...
...hurricane blew everybody off Cape Cod, it could be repopulated overnight by the fictional offspring of Joseph Crosby Lincoln. Last week Author Lincoln, collaborating with his nonfictional offspring Freeman, proved that not even a hurricane can stop him from writing about Cape Cod, used the big blow of 1938 merely as curtain raiser for The Ownley Inn. Before the final curtain, when the stolen New England Primer (value: $60,000) is recovered, and broken-nosed Puss Clarke makes up with his ex-fiancée, a full cast of summer folk and Down East worthies have sauntered across the stage...
...Author Lincoln lives in suburban Villanobly went off to London; one of his daughters drifted into marriage with the handsome, idle son of retired cotton magnate Sir James Ashwell. The Major himself, seeking a good housekeeper, married a large-boned, clumsy spinster of 37 who dismayed him by producing twins. Author Whipple's eventual solution, after using the Munich crisis in a genteelly British way to resolve her novel's problems, combines the Major's estate, Sir James's money and the assorted talents of all the characters, turns Saunby Priory into an up-to-date...
...distilled love-lore for the pathetic public that sends her more than 500 letters daily. Wives with husband trouble will read that they must be patient. Husbands in woman scrapes will read that they must not cheat. But fluttery, did-I-do-wrong girls will be happy to learn Author Dix's basic philosophy, that Balzac long ago stated more picturesquely: "No matter how black the pot may be, it can always find a lid." A young girl's fancies, suggests Author Dix, should be pretty well taken up with locating that...