Word: broun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heywood Broun: ". . . . emotionally shortweight...
...Critics. Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, of The Literary Review, calls Faint Perfume " one of the interesting books in the history of American fiction." Heywood Broun remarks in The New York World: "We do not know any modern novelist who has achieved such admirable compression." Other commentators have protested at the "happy ending." But the book has generally been received as a masterpiece of its kind and as in most respects greatly superior to tne much-praised Miss Lulu Bett...
...over again on another one. There are also a few clearly indicated wheezes. They would be funnier in Russian. Lennox Pawle is really comic as a stage Briton. Kenneth Macgowan: ". . . John Murray Anderson's loveliest production." Alexander Woollcott: ". . . Good looks . . . 100; music . . . 50-50; gayety . . . 4." Heywood Broun: ". . . pretty, but laughter has been largely omit- ted." The Love Set. The comic burglar who turns out to be the girl's father is not as bad as the rest...
...wood Broun: ". . . abounds in good, clean fun and also in good...
Justice Ford and his followers have their weapon at hand. The Ku Klux Klan will prove a stout ally. Cabell and Broun and Lawrence and Mrs. Hull, beware the sheeted band...