Word: broun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...author, "is already too full of moral lectures and serious reformers; and while I trust my efforts may prove instructive to the uninitiated, my ambition is also to be hailed a welcome raconteur." The public press is daily informing Mr. Wellman that this ambition has been gratified. One Heywood Broun of The New York World, in a column devoted to this book, is on record to the effect that after reading Gentleman of the Jury, he regretted for the first time that the laws of New York State exempted newspaper men from jury duty...
...Louis Bayard, cultured, a little dried up, in whose elegance she finally found comfort. Everywhere she sought-but her tortured, inquiring mind never found the "answers in the back of the book."This novel has been highly received by such critics as Edna Ferber. F. P. A., Heywood Broun, Laurence Stallings...
...author's thesis possible if not plausible. When she was on the stage, streaks of gleaming silver showed through the leaden surface of the play. Alexander Woollcott-"Miss Cornell and her finely competent performance provided the only interest to sustain us through a ponderous and uneventful evening." Heywood Broun-"I cannot remember as much as five minutes in the entire evening which were not tiresome...
...very seriously, and with a singular tedium. Gilbert W. Gabriel-"Doused in trite, puff-cheeked sentiments, only now and then cured by humor." Alexander Woollcott - "A gaudy chromo, evidently selected because it provided so many emotional crises in which to exhibit the sundry talents of Miss Florence Reed." Heywood Broun-"I am not at all sure that the ashman would accept it. He would be much more likely to leave it for his fellow city employe with the other cart...
...Heywood Broun -"A magnificent performance [Miss Gillmore's], a good deal of interest and entertainment, and a cracked window on life...