Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. James Lauren Ford, 73, famed onetime literary critic of the old New York Herald, humorist, author; in Bayshore...
Whispering Friends. On the night it opened, the more important play reviewers, foes and friends of its author, famed George M. Cohan, whispered among themselves and decided to attend the revival of Our Betters (see above). What they missed was one more farce about the newly married couple which was, in fact, less of an addition to this smoking room form of drama than a repetition of innumerable predecessors. The girl friend of the rich wife says to her, in effect: "I think your husband married you for money. I will flirt with him and we shall see." Her advances...
...Cohan first night has often made a noticeable sputter on Broadway. Hence it annoyed the author of Whispering Friends to find that the critics in whom he had put trust had neglected his play and that the minor critics, sent in their stead, had abused it. The annoyance felt by Author Cohan was expressed in a series of confidently derisive advertisements which he caused to be printed in Manhattan newssheets above his own signature...
...fortnight ago Mrs. Bertrand Russell, author of The Right to be Happy, wife of the English philosopher, was refused the privilege of speaking before the "mixed" Student Forum at the University of Wisconsin on the subject:."Should Women Be Protected?" This subject involved companionate marriage, in which Mrs. Russell is a firm and earnest believer. President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin had been consulted by the Student Forum and had approved of barring of Mrs. Russell (TIME...
...That John Erskine, professor (English Literature, Columbia University), author ( The Private Life of Helen of Troy, Galahad, Adam and Eve), pianist, has been elected president of the Juilliard School of Music, hitherto governed by committee...