Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Doubleday, Page & Co. are the publishers, but are not responsible in case of suit over any fiction because of a flat guarantee required of authors that their work contains nothing libelous or so indecent as to outrage public morals. Author Ferber was sued some years ago by her onetime landlady in Chicago, who claimed damages for her portrayal as a drab character...
Last week, before 150 members of the Art Association in suave Newport, R. I., these words rolled from the lips of suave James W. ("Jimmie") Gerard, ambassador to Germany (1913-17), author of My Four Years in Germany, one of those distinguished personages whom one sees when one dines at the Ritz. Mr. Gerard's remarks were placidly received in the Art meeting, but they sounded harsh to Democrats in the back country, many of whom have been his friends...
...Hamilton Fyfe, famed "most traveled editor," author of The Fruit of the Tree, threw up his job as editor of the Daily Herald of London last week, took passage for Australia, declared: "I'm going back to vagabondage...
...Donovan Affair. Owen Davis, author of well over a hundred plays, is to be credited with having written what promises to be the biggest mystery play success since The Bat. The playwright has managed to put so much suspense and excitement into his three acts that you can readily forgive an occasional absudity here and there, as well as the undeniable weakness of the final unraveling of his mystery. The plot follows the formula carefully. A murder is committed at a dinner party, and one by one every member of the cast comes under suspicion. And then at the close...
...Author Sinclair Lewis wrote a book, Main Street, the scene of which was "Gopher Prairie" (Sauk Center). In the book was a physician...