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Historical Novelist James Boyd (Drums Marching On, Long Hunt), who once said he would not write about the present because "things are moving too fast," last week jumped smack into midstream of present happenings. He bought and became editor of his local paper, the Southern Pines, N.C. Pilot ("a guaranteed circulation of 1,200 and I count a man a subscriber even if he pays with a sack of potatoes...
Unfortunately for the Hearst strategy, The Free Company, a non-commercial series of democratic propaganda plays by people like Maxwell Anderson, Ernest Hemingway and William Saroyan, operates under what is virtually a Government charter. The Company's chairman, distinguished Author James Boyd (Drums, Marching On), pointed out that he is a dollar-a-year man with the Department of Justice, had shaped up The Free Company on official advice from his good friend Solicitor General Francis Biddle...
...before Tin Pan Alley heard it. For Texas has boomed mightily as a source and an outlet for popular music. The late guitar-toting Jimmie Rodgers, onetime brakeman on the Southern Railway, helped start the boom, on Victor hillbilly records a dozen years ago. Now Victor's Bill Boyd, Columbia's Gene Autry, Bob Wills, Bonnie Blue Eyes and Patsy Montana sing to the nation the songs that Texas makes. And the Kapp brothers, who run Decca, see to it that Bing Crosby croons the Texas sellers...
...publishers of this first novel liken its discovery to the discovery of Thomas Wolfe. In both cases the so-called "discoverer" (literary agent) was Madeleine Boyd, the manuscript was some 800,000 words long, and the original was ruthlessly cut. Like Wolfe's, Davey's novel is also utterly autobiographical...
...designed to run 13 weeks, will be scripts on freedom in general by Stephen Vincent Benet, Sherwood Anderson, George M. Cohan, Ernest Hemingway. Not entirely indiscriminate in its praise of the U. S., The Free Company will include in its broadcasts a bit of salutary criticism, with Founder Boyd offering as his stint the fight of a worker against capital's frauds and labor's finks. But of the average shortcomings of the average citizen no mention was scheduled on the show...