Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Christopher Morley, versatile author and newspaperman, will lecture in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 8 o'clock on "the Wounded Oyster." Mr. Morley's title is taken from a quotation from Emerson...
...Hubbard, American scientist, author, and a former guard on the Harvard football team, is conducting an expedition to the bush of northern Rhodesia to study the psychology of wild animals found there. He will try to establish a scientific research station there, and is planning to take cinematography pictures and to make gramophone records of the wild animals there...
Then they meet the real owner of the ship, Lord Furber of Author Bennett's beloved "Five Towns," rich beyond reason. Count Veruda has been merely an instrument of the moment, used to entice Miss Perkins, Mr. Sutherland, or both into his gruff old master's clutches. Follow many pages of mystery while Lord Furber, Mr. Sutherland, and certain members of the crew vie for the nimble Miss Perkins' favor; eventually comes to light Lord Furber's motive. It seems that Mr. Sutherland holds an option on Lallers, famed dressmaking establishment; that Lady Furber...
...Significance. Author Bennett has written what he calls a fantasia; mainly for his own amusement, one suspects, though the element of finance may have some place in the picture What he has achieved is a novel which belongs distinctly in the featherweight class, employing a preposterous plot and progressing to an unimportant little climax. Occasional flashes of humor are obscured by the ponderous attempt to make the whole affair very funny indeed. Only the author's acknowledged facility with the pen saves Vanguard from being spoken to quite sharply. The Author. Enoch Arnold Bennett, 60, was born near Hanley...
GRITNY PEOPLE-R. Emmet Kennedy-Dodd-Mead ($2.50). Author Kennedy brings the colored talent of Gretna, across the river from New Orleans, to Aunt Susan's cookshop where they tell their tales and croon their tunes. The reader may be gripped with pathos, shaken with laughter-if he escapes suffocation in the cloud of dialect which pervades the book from cover to cover. There is also a spirit of ineffable quaintness at times a bit trying. Gritny People is, perhaps, less fiction than a study of primitive Negro character and lore...