Word: brander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. James Brander Matthews, 77, famed New Yorker; of influenza; in Manhattan. He was the son of a New Orleans businessman. Educated at Columbia University, he taught there for 32 years, holding the first chair specifically devoted to the drama in any U. S. University. He married English Actress Ada Smith (1873) who died in 1924. He wrote more than 35 books?essays, drama criticism, plays, tales. Great in geniality, he drew about him potent men of his time: William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Rudyard Kipling, Theodore Roosevelt. The friend of thousands, he once received a book from Mark Twain...
Abie's Irish Rose. Six years ago, as everyone knows, a play by this name opened in Manhattan. The critics, with two exceptions, sneered at it. Cut-rate seats and distribution of free passes kept it alive for the first month. Then it began to take. One man (Brander Matthews) did say it was "a perfectly constructed and played comedy." Another man and two women saw it seventeen times. During the second and third years of its run, fashionable folk flocked to it after dinner parties. In the middle of its fifth year, after 2,400 performances on Broadway...
Will Rogers, five weeks out of hospital after an appendix removal, had to be "doubled" for in a cinema. As "Congressman Maverick Brander" he was supposed to come tearing out of a Washington, D. C., hotel in a nightshirt and swallowtail coat, leap on a horse, dash down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. One Fred Lacey, one-time cowboy, now a bus driver, was hired as the double. Hearing a report that his life was held too dear for riding, Mr. Rogers snorted, "Huh, I may be a bum rider but I figure I'm still man enough...
...Manhattan, Professor-Critic Brander Matthews of Columbia University, aged 75, for 25 years an apostle of correct speech, was stricken dumb by thrombosis (bloodclot) on his brain...
...Brander Matthews, Dean of U. S. critics: " 'I don't approve of it,' said I, bluntly last week, referring to the award to Bernard Shaw of the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature. I refused to explain my stand, saying I was 'not looking for publicity.' I noted that Rebecca West, the distinguished English novelist, is reported to have said: 'In England we all feel it is perfectly absurd the Nobel Prize has never been awarded to Thomas Hardy. It is regarded as a grave reflection upon the manner in which the winner is selected...