Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign. At the Democratic primaries in January, the single-party state of Louisiana will nominate its next governor. The chief candidate is Sam Jones, who served his one term until 1944; Louisiana law does not allow a governor to succeed himself. Meanwhile Jones's friend, Songwriter Jimmy Davis, author of You Are My Sunshine, has been keeping the seat warm for him. Sam Jones should...
Died. Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, 79, author of the everlasting, best-selling The Lodger (1913); in Eversley Cross, Hampshire, England. "Mrs. Belloc Lowndes," sister of Author Hilaire Belloc, was a trail blazer and old settler in psychological-crime mysteries, wrote more than 35 novels in 40 years, mostly about nice people with snarled-up psyches...
...second course of Mr. Coward's current offering brings to light a program more varied in scope than the first, and presents an excellent opportunity for the author-director to display not only variations in his writing but still in handling on the stage his intricate and often most delicately balanced dialogue and situation...
...evening is a remarkably well-balanced serving of Coward, tremendously enhanced by his expert direction. Even in the weak moments of "Fumed Oak," the element timing of action and dialogue carries the audience past the inherent failures of the work: and although the middle-class experiment fails through author's in ability to combine his overeager social consciousness with a saving fluency of dialogue, the director's fine sense of timing and contrast save the piece as a whole. Indeed, the neatly-balanced combination of Coward and Coward make the Shubert bill worth not one, but two evenings of almost...
...Author. Peter Demianovich Ouspensky died last month in England, at 69, in the private obscurity wherein he had always preferred darkly to shine. His London solicitor believed that Ouspensky was "the greatest man alive." Sentiments like that of the solicitor were once held by various impressionable readers of A New Model of the Universe and Ouspensky's earlier Tertium Organum, a massive work of esoteric philosophy that Ouspensky wrote in Russia before World War I and first published in English in the U.S. in 1920. Moscow-born Ouspensky was at that time living in Constantinople. The late Viscountess Rothermere...