Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Monteiro Lobato, famed Brazilian author: "My novel, The Clash of the Races, or The Negro President, will soon be published in the U. S. Its hero is a Negro who becomes President...
Died. Mikhail Petrovich Artsibashev, 48, famed Russian author, great-grandson of 'Tadeusz Kosciuszko (temperamental Pole who fought for the American colonists in 1777); in Warsaw. Tales of the Revolution, (1917) gives intimate pictures of Russia's debacle...
Died. Mrs. Grace Woodville Read Robinson, 60, broker, member of Women's Bond Club, wife of historian James Harvey Robinson (author of The Mind in the Making, 1921) ; in Manhattan...
Their first production, Loud Speaker, was written by John Howard Lawson, author of Processional (TIME, Jan. 26, 1925). As expected, it is staged against a "constructivist" background and presents the subjective state of the principal characters as well as their objective actions. The virtue of such staging is that, by affording the playwright several planes of action on one stage, it allows greater flexibility than is permitted by the rigid three-walled limitations of ordinary theatre. Thus, in Loud Speaker, the candidate for governor of the State may be discovered mulling over his radio speech in one corner...
Money From Home. On the road it was known as Coal Oil Jenny. Though occasionally it spurts a hopeful wisecrack, the full gusher of real drama is not forthcoming, wherefore it will probably not strike money from Broadway. The hero, played by the author, Frank Craven, masters gullible wealthy women for profit. One victim is a Pennsylvania factory girl, come to Manhattan to spend her $6,000 for a furtive smack of city life. The exploiter of women, duped by her reckless display, rushes into matrimony only to find he has caught a liability instead of an asset. And here...