Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Potent U. S. financiers, from Thomas W. Lament down, journey to Italy only to return and hymn the praises of Fascism (TIME, Feb. 1). Established authors, especially such contributors to the Saturday Evening Post as Irvin S. Cobb, return to pronounce like benedictions upon Premier Mussolini and all his works. Last week, in Paris, Louis Bromifield, 30, author of three financially and artistically successful novels* recounted to newsgatherers with the alarming candor of youth impressions gleaned on a recent visit to Italy...
...mercenary if financial terms were the only ones for which he cared. But true artist that he is he has something to say about who shall mime his characters. Tunney would do very well, but there is in addition to a hero a villain. And the villain a the author has his way and this author usually does will be acted by the unfortunate Mr. Dempesey Shaw's kownness is remarkable; but if memory serves correctly he has other motives than aesthetic ones. He had a wager up once on the Dempsey Carpentier fight. Something happened and carpenter lost. Therefore...
...presented by the student theater is "The Patriarch," written by a Yale undergraduate, Boyd Smith of Elkins, West Virginia. The production has been approved by Professor George Pierce Baker head of the Yale Department of Drama, who was formerly in charge of the Harvard "47" Workship. The author of the play is a member of an advanced class in play-writing and has written several successful short dramas...
...these men turned to Ibsen, and how the famous author, represented by several of his brain-children, rushed to the dike to keep out threatening boredom, is too well-known to be repeated. In a season of revivals, Ibsen headed the list, his only near competitors for honors being Gilbert and Sullivan. Now, however, at this early stage of the season, indications point strongly to the fact that he may again be called upon to rescue the public. Although this is too soon to come to any definite conclusions, when as perfect an actress as Miss Le. Gallienne is engaged...
...rate a leisurely and companiable occasion. But is is not the fortune of everyone to be either a Kiwanian or a Rotarian and therefore the non-fraternal portion of America is left with a cup of coffee, a sandwich, and a tin plated armchair. The Forum author endeavors to solve the enigma. "To me our main difficulty seems to be a failure to make a distinction between the two words gourmand and gourmet. When we cease to regard eating as something to be done purely out of habit, finding in it instead untold aesthetic delights, our only regret will...