Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Trial of Mary Dugan (Metro Goldwyn Mayer). Once more the unity of time and scene and the concentration of dialog made possible by a courtroom play have been utilized in an effective sound-picture. The story, adapted without alteration from a recent stage success, and directed by the author, Bayard Veiller, concerns a showgirl, who is tried for the murder of her lover and is defended by her brother, a lawyer. Best shot?Norma Shearer telling how she paid for her brother's education...
About Calvin Coolidge's name last week swirled the names of two great publishers and two editors. Mr. Coolidge was, as usual, impassively the centre. He was the author. His job had been to write a story for each editor. He did, and each paid him well...
...penned story, swift, personal, moving. The other was Loring Ashley Schuler, whose April Ladies' Home Journal also carrying a Coolidge-penned story appeared only last week. The Schuler-Coolidge story was, of course, dulled because antedated by the Long-Collidge story. But what really killed the Schuler story was Author Coolidge himself. In the Cosmopolitan he was dynamic, in the Ladies' Home Journal he was tedious, general, rambling...
...keen readers of both stories last week were inclined to give Author Coolidge credit for fitting his prose to his medium. For Cosmopolitan readers the Coolidge pen had raced intimately. For Ladies' Home Journal readers it had dealt ponderously with peace, defense, good gov- ernment. Publisher Curtis might have felt last week that he, like William Randolph Hearst, had gotten just what he wanted for his readers...
...Parent Church charged that Mrs. Eddy as an author had plagiarized from Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, the Rev. Hugh Blair, Swiss Philosopher Henri Frederic Amiel. Sample parallels were...