Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play is The Making of an Immortal. Edward of Wales attended its premiere last week. He seemed diverted by a drama which unfolds upon the stage the theory that that erudite Elizabethan, Francis Bacon (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans), was the real author of plays now attributed to William Shakespeare. The stalls were atwitter between the acts, as nice points of Baconiana and Shakespeariana were weighed. But while the curtain was up the gallery roared approval of a mannish, imperious Queen Elizabeth and of a Will Shakespeare who seemed but a lout of an actor and most timid and unwilling...
...Theme. In his "explanation" the author, a smooth-faced banker of the Wall Street house of Lehman Bros., confesses: "I have not proven prosperity, though I think others have. . . . You will discover among other things that I believe in exaggeration in advertising; and since a title has largely an advertising function to fulfill, I believe there is some justification in my exaggerated title...
...Author is at that early middle stage of Wall Street power where he dry-washes his hands with dignity. Aged 35, Harvard graduate of 1914, he has also written a book, Principles of Organization Applied to Modern Retailing, which had a large effect on department store management...
CRUSADE-Donn Byrne-Little Brown ($2). There is almost no getting around it, and Donn Byrnians will have to survive it as best they can-their favorite author has rewritten The Sheik with reverse English. Perhaps, though, the reverse is Irish enough to keep the faithful in the fold...
Returning to Palestine for a sentimental journey after the pseudo-austerities of his pilgrimage in Brother Saul, Author Byrne tells the tale of Miles O'Neill, a young Irish knight seeking fortune after being dispossessed at home. Palestine is technically at peace, between crusades. The saviors and guardians of the Lord's Sepulchre have nothing better to do than gamble extravagantly, dawdle quarrelsomely and bicker about Doctrine...