Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most decided place in the! literary world for himself, sans qualifying relatives. A graduate of the University of California, he has reported dog-shows, written Hints for Tulip Raisers, worked on The Christian Herald, Country Life, The American Magazine, served in the late War, and written two best sellers, Brass and Salt. He likes monosyllabic titles, the State of California, loud neckties...
Good Old Days. When this play was produced for try-out in Chicago under the title " Light Wines and Beers, the managers installed a brass railed bar in the theatre lobby. From these facts it may be inferred that the comedy of the play is largely alcoholic. Aaron Hoffman is the author; George Bickel and Charles Winninger the funny...
...Brass Bottle. In producing Down to the Sea in Ships, Maurice Tourneur, director of The Brass Bottle, dealt very effectively with a large rubber whale and one of the heaviest Northwest gales that ever struck the screen. In the present picture he fashions his effects from the improbable fabric of fancy. In fine, he tries to tell a fairy story. He finds the volatile genie far harder to manage than the rubber whale...
William McFee, novelist: "The Cunard-Anchor steamship Tuscania, which has just sailed for the Mediterranean, is the only trans-Atlantic liner with a bookshop aboard. Captain David W. Bone, who wrote The Brass-bounder, and other books, commands this ship, and I, who wrote Command, Casuals of the Sea, and so on, am proprietor of her unique 'traveling Parnassus...
...need to use the schools for propaganda. The case would prove itself. But when they are asked to teach, not the truth about war, but the theoretical wrongfulness of a certain use of war, they are diverted from their purpose and debased, and all to no purpose. A brass band and bronze buttons outweigh volumes of that kind of exhortation...