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RISE AND FIGHT AGAINE-Samuel Merwin - Boni...
...Merwin (Silk, Temperamental Henry). Last week Liggett drugstores throughout the U. S. were featuring on their cut-rate book counters this "amazing TRUE story of a man who conceived the greatest cooperative organization in history." Because there is no such thing as a Pure Blurb and Ballyhoo Law, Publisher Boni could not be sued for misrepresentation. On the other hand, though this latest Rexall product must certainly be classed as patent medicine, it did not contain any habit-forming drugs...
...partner of famed Bridgebuilder Ralph Modjeski; when, rocked by a gust of wind, he lost his balance and fell 120 ft. from the Delaware River Bridge; in Philadelphia. Died. Horace Brisbin Liveright, 46, Manhattan publisher and stage producer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A onetime bond salesman, he, with Albert Boni, formed Boni & Liveright, Inc., which later became Liveright Inc., now bankrupt. Some of his authors: Eugene O'Neill, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, : Emil Ludwig, Robinson Jeffers, Ben ; Hecht, Hendrik Van Loon. Died. Michael Joseph ("Turkey Mike") Donlin, 57, actor, oldtime baseballer; of heart disease; in Los Angeles...
...model, industrious life he led, his years were troubled by the vagaries of the many persons in whose veins flowed the blood of his famed father. His brothers and sisters, save for Helen, all insisted on marrying actresses or noblemen -generally more than once. His sister Anna divorced Count Boni de Castellane and married the Due de Talleyrand. His brother Howard (now living abroad) married Actress Viola Kathrine Clemmons...
...WANTS BUT LITTLE-Wilson Wright-Boni ($2). This novel about present-day Cuba treads delicately among the thorny implications of Cuban politics and calls no grave-digging spade by its right name. Sinister echoes of U. S. big business, of Havana terrorism, are felt only in the background of this pastoral tale of Cuban peasantry. Variously and wildly com- pared to the work of Thornton Wilder, Norman Douglas, Willa Cather, Author Wright's first novel needs no such gaudy bush: to plain palates it will taste like a good, sun-ripened vin du pays. Now an English instructor...