Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There can be no doubt that this "musical version" of the novel of famed Author Alexandre Dumas is as good as any such production is likely to be. Mr. Ziegfeld, hitherto the most ardent sponsor of these things, has announced that he intends to produce no more of them...
David Binney Putnam (1 4-year-old explorer, 6 ft. ½ in. tall, author of David Goes Voyaging, etc., Hotchkiss schoolboy) and his father, Publisher George Palmer Putnam, offered U. S. Boy Scouts four months of fun and an avenue to fame. They will select two youths, between the ages of 13½ and 15, to go with them to Africa to observe animals with Hunter-Photographer & Mrs. Martin Johnson (Simba). The trip will begin on June 15, end in October. The two Boy Scouts will write a book about their doings, be paid royalties...
Sherwood Anderson, author of Dark Laughter, collects news from Coon Hollow, Spratts Creek, Troutdale, Marion and many another Virginian village, prints it in two weekly newssheets. When he bought the Smyth County News and the Marion Democrat (combined circulation, 5,000) he explained to whom it might concern: 'I am doing it primarily to make a living. My books have never sold." Last week Editor & Publisher Anderson confided to readers of the Democrat: "The trouble with us is that we have to write the whole paper, and make our living nights. You can't make money and have...
...March. The book is not written with genius either of style or of insight but it is written with intelligence and a proper sensitiveness to words. It can be asserted, with some justice, that, possessing these qualifications, no one could help writing a good book about King Christophe. Author John Vandercook, in a day when too many authors with abilities insufficient for their task attempt to decorate matters which are trite or trivial, deserves applause for choosing a superlative subject for human and highly spectacular biography...
...Author Vestal finds Kit a bit tiresome. Readers will find Author Vestal tiresome for too much apologizing. Kit had courage, needs no excuses. Author Vestal also has an irritating habit of breaking into an Indian war cry, "Wagh...