Word: broun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heywood Broun: "Miss Fontanne, one of the finest actresses...
...humorists?Cobb, Adams, Benchley, Connelly, Broun, Stewart...
...human. Perhaps if I could see him weep once, I should actually believe in his humanity. Thomas Masson is human; but his humor is the genial story. He is the raconteur. He is not a nifty hound like Marc Connelly, nor a worshiper of the sentimentally bizarre like Heywood Broun. Of course, my favorite humorist is Donald Ogden Stewart. He is a friend of mine, and I am not ashamed to write about it. Quite well, I remember a breakfast at the Yale Club when Don, having given up his job of selling bonds, told me that he was about...
...signals after reading Don Marquis' "Revolt of the Oyster" and F. P. A.'s "Overset". But he has gone right ahead regardless. Now he must weather it through as best he can. Of course we cannot raise much of a tempest, for our spirit has been broken since Heywood Broun pronounced our review of Scott Fitzgerald to be "sophomoric"; although that critic has yet to prove how one can be anything but sophomoric when in Fitzgerald's company. We can forgive Mr. Broun, but we cannot let Christopher Morley off scot-free, for we love him too well...
...Heywood Broun: "A summer show well above the average...