Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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LORD OF THE WILD, by Samuel Scoville Jr. (William Morrow & Co., $2.00), contains 13 stories of wild animals in their native haunts; the stories of fennecs in South Africa, grey wolves of the Artic, and cobras in India. Mr. Scoville, the author of three other books on wild life, and a field naturalist of long standing, evidently knows his subject well, and has the imagination and ability to give the reader an extremely vivid picture of the scene he portrays...
...Author Millin, who knows her South Africa, has flayed artistic egotism with gentle skill...
...cocktails for his employer. After four years, Simon gets tired of getting along, particularly when he finds out that his wife had duped him into marriage after having an illegitimate child by another man. Honest, basically upright Simon obtains a divorce, a wholesome job, a new and true wife. Author Train tells it swiftly, stiffly. He has also written eleven novels, five volumes of short stories, six matchless yarns about Mr. Tutt (funny lawyer), three law books...
ALREADY in its third printing, Schnitzler's "Daybreak," has quite proved its right of succession to "Rhapsody." Probably no living writer excells this author in the short episodic novel form. Old enough to retain the fine art of story telling, Schnitzler knows the use of the new school of psychology, and employs it without intrusion. The story is remarkable for its drama, and yet the author escapes the melodramatic without sacrificing emotion...
...stage from the time of Shakespeare. The earliest playbill is that of a puppet show in Bartholomew Fair about 1682, believed to be the first playbill printed in English. In the first of the Drury Lane playbills the dramatis presonae, the names of the actors, and the author did not appear; these features were printed for the first time on the bills of 1714. It is interesting to note that many of the stars of this period resolved upon several alleged farewell performances before actually retiring from the stage...