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...picture, which is based on the novel of W. R. Burnett, author of "Little Caesar," in which Robinson gained his first screen fame, deals with a man whose passion for gambling is so strong that he gives up love and home and practically everything in life considered worthwhile because...
Just before dawn next morning, Lieut. Norman Burnett ran into a howling snow-storm on the Cleveland-Chicago route. The ceiling closed down and he missed a beacon. Then his gasoline line clogged and he went into a tight spin. He had no mail so he took to his parachute. In landing he fractured...
FEARING that the American short story would be doomed if brilliant unheard of authors were denied the opportunity to have their stories published. Whit Burnett and Martha Foley, with encouragement from Edward J. O'Brien, undertook the un-remunerative task of publishing a new magazine, "Story," to contain almost exclusively stories which had been rejected because the authors were unknown, or which were refused because the style or material was considered unorthodox by editors in the leading magazines in the United States. This was a bold step since so many little magazines have started in the past decade, and have...
...Whit Burnett and Martha Foley, I fear, have been more successful with the magazine than they have been with the anthology which contains only a few outstanding short stories. First, I shall touch briefly on the self-conscious authors who treat sex sensationally, and badly; into this category come Bruce Brown, Erskine Caldwell, James Stern, and George Albee. The last man mentioned describes pithily and dully the reactions of a seventeen-year-old boy when he is assured that he has contracted syphilis from a girl whom he loves. "Week-End," by Carlton Brown is an amusing description...
...candidate for New York State's convention on repeal of the 8th Amendment was bald, square-cut Vivian Burnett, original of Little Lord Fauntleroy, written by his mother, Frances Hodgson Burnett, in 1886. Now a free lance writer, he told newshawks: "I was a perfectly normal boy-I got myself just as damn dirty as the other boys. I could write a book about what Fauntleroy has been to me. I try to get away from...