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...beloved. The daughter, Adelaide, is the high spot of the Pinney family. She is gifted with a budding intelligence which begins to blossom under the beneficent influence of her pleasant if uninteresting romance with a book agent whom she finally marries. Adelaide is the Carol Kennicott, the Lulu Bett, the Leda Perrin of Poor Pinney. She gropes vaguely for something outside the stuffy household of her youth...
...Venice, with David Warfield as Shylock, is to be produced ii- London. The Music Box Revue is also about to be offered to the London public. The San Francisco Theatre Guild has disagreed amongst itself and disbanded. In the course of its existence it produced six plays: Miss Lulu Bett, The Truth About Blayds, Heartbreak House, S. S. Tenacity, Enter Madame, A Doll's House. Seventy performances in all were given. One of the recent personal triumphs of this season is that of Dwight Frye. He appeared in Six Characters in Search of an Author as the legitimate...
...Novel By The Author of Miss Lulu Bett...
...York World: "We do not know any modern novelist who has achieved such admirable compression." Other commentators have protested at the "happy ending." But the book has generally been received as a masterpiece of its kind and as in most respects greatly superior to tne much-praised Miss Lulu Bett...
...Author. Miss Gale was born in 1874. She began in newspaper work first on Milwaukee papers, later on The New York World. Her most successful work heretofore was Miss Lulu Bett, a dramatization of which was awarded the Pulitzer prize of $1,000 as the best play produced in New York in 1920. Her present home is her birthplace, Portage...