Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gertrude Beasley, with assurance that these charming revelations had been admired by H. L. ("Hatrack") Mencken and suppressed both here and abroad. Two Worlds, braving the mails, offered thitherto unpublished work by Boccaccio; some confessions by Poet Arthur Symonds; a new unnamed work by famed and juicy James Joyce, author of Ulysses; a "dark surmise" concerning Philosopher Nietzsche and his sister--and an unknown story by Lewis ("Alice-in-Wonderland") Carroll...
...Author Hergesheimer is repeatedly accused of vulgarity, never of slack workmanship. Hot color, detail as meticulously perfect as a showgirl's makeup, are his special contribution to serious letters. Sometimes a deep pulse of life makes itself felt, sometimes an incomparable atmosphere passes over the hard surfaces, as in Java Head and The Three Black Pennys. But mostly, labor faithfully though he obviously does, Author Hergesheimer remains a short-range camera, loaded with a thick film. "No Grifolifes...
...Author Jim Tully, this kind of an Irishman himself, has spent 13 years in and around the Hollywood cinema studios. He has not become a world famous actor or director but he knows how other men have done so, shoddy rats and real geniuses alike. So Jack Jarnegan, the Hibernian superman of this story, becomes a great director and the cheap rats are drowned and smashed in torrents of abuse. It makes no polite fireside tale. The sex life of a Hibernian superman would be a thing of wonder even if he lived in Kamschatka. The Tully superman in Hollywood...
KYRA KYRALINA-Panait Istrati -Knopf ($2.50). Five years ago, hospital attendants in Nice found upon the person of a wretch who had cut his throat unsuccessfully, a letter addressed to Author Romain Rolland, the French pacifist-humanist. The patient lived and, encouraged by M. Rolland, wrote many stories, of which this book contains the first three to be published in English...
...Significance. It remained for a Frenchman, a world-wide knockabout himself, to resurrect this California Midas whom our swarming old-Americana hunters have overlooked. Perhaps Sutter was put from memory for conscience's sake, but now he is back, a mighty, marvelous, golden ghost. Author Cendrars's rushing historical present is a handsome medium for the sweep of such fortunes and fates. If he has anywhere exaggerated, which seems inevitable, who cares...