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...magazine of this sort. The Saturday Review is as authoritative as all followers of Editor Canby knew it would be. Its editorials are clear, its reviewers carefully chosen. Its essays, if somewhat academic, have a certain charm. Mr. Morley's "The Bowling Green"and Mr. William Benet's "The Phoenix Nest" recommend it heartily to the large personal followings of these gentlemen. It is not in any sense a supplement to a paper. It is a review in the traditions of the English reviews, with somewhat of the complexion of The Times Literary Supplement; or rather, perhaps, with...
John Farrar and Stephen Vincent Benet are the authors. Possibly they imputed to Peggy Eaton a nimbler wit than they devised for her. As played by Katherine Alexander, the character caught the crackle of conviction...
Nerves. Probably when the discerningly competent John Farrar and Stephen Vincent Benet are more experienced in the Theatre, they will look back upon Nerves and wonder why they ever did it. It originated as a one-act War play, was spread thinly through three acts and emerged as such an inexpert contrivance that the critics quite lost their tempers. The story discusses a young aviator with a bad heart and too much imagination who went to War, funked his duty, was driven to it, crippled himself for life getting his Boche. There is also a girl who decided with difficulty...
...must be a great joy for two persons to be intellectually as well-mated as these two. Here they were, with their young son and three Benet children (for a branch of the literary Benets are nieces and nephews) starting off for California,, with all possible gaiety. In the Autumn they plan to return to Manhattan and, hereafter, to work there for at least half the year. "If it's possible to work in New York," Mr. Norris added. Then, "Is it?" The answer is, I think: It's possible to write anywhere if you are surrounded...
...world of literature, as in the world of athletics, "youth will be served." F. Scott Fitzgerald, not long out of college, has achieved a reputation for collegiate realism. Stephen Benet has made a name himself by his somewhat sensational writing. Mr. Cozzens is now publishing his first novel...