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...Significance. In this his second novel, Mr. Bromfield has painted a large canvas, the small town in all its smallness, Manhattan both as the little clerk sees it and as society lives it, and Paris, the cosmopolis. Having a large canvas, he was not as economical as he might have been. He spent 500 pages telling a story that might have been more effectively set down in 400, and could have been written by a master in 300. It is a good story, not because it is much of a story but because the characters act convincinely, from the heroine...
...Author. Louis Bromfield, a young fellow whose first book, The Green Bay Tree, made its mark among first novels, put forth his second novel not as a sequel but as a companion piece for his first. It covers approximately the same time, the first quarter of the present century, and includes several characters of his first novel, including Lily Shane. He takes himself seriously and promises to make these "panel novels" into a screen, "which, when complete, will consist of at least a half-dozen panels all interrelated...
...birth of the Museum should interest them, too, for that was only surpassed by its very dramatic death. In 1841 the Museum on Bromfield Street was opened as a sort of miniature Madame Tussaud's wax works. Light musical entertainment was soon added and in 1843 the first play was produced. The gentry scorned the theatres of the time and it was not until 1844 that 'nice people' could be persuaded to attend. They were lured inside the doors by that moral production, 'The Drunkard, or, The Fallen Saved'. After that moral productions followed thick and fast, the most famous...
...authors could call forth such an aggregation of literary ladies and gentlemen as greeted Sherwood Anderson recently in Manhattan. The editor of The Dial was seen hobnobbing with the editor of The Saturday Rveiew, Louis Untermeyer, William Rose Benét, Floyd Dell and Louis Bromfield found themselves at the same table. Yet of all the unusual happenings of an unusual gathering, perhaps the most appealing to the sense of incongruity was the meeting (they did not actually meet) of H. L. Mencken and Stuart Pratt Sherman. These pen-enemies were in the same room, guests of the same host...
...novel, which is about a certain auburn-haired Connemara, was begun by Carolyn Wells, continued by Alexander Woollcott, carried on by Louis Bromfield, sustained by Elsie Janis. On Jan. 17, Ed Streeter was scheduled to prolong it, Meade Minnigerode to extend it, Dorothy Parker to persist to the end of her chapter. Eventually the following will all have had a turn: Harry C. Witwer, Sophie Kerr, Robert G. Anderson, Kermit Roosevelt, Bernice Brown, Wallace Irwin, Frank Craven, George B. McCutcheon, Rube Goldberg, George A. Chamberlain, John V. A. Weaver, Gerald Mygatt, George P. Putnam...