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...sits this evening, enveloped in the fragrant, pearly clouds of smoke from his Rey Odoro Perfecto--".. thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties--give me a cigar," says Byron--the Vagabond has fallen into what might be called a reminisceful mood. "Nothing", said Herodotus, "gives such weight and dignity to a book as an appendix", and he might well have paraphrased his own remark and said that nothing gives such dignity to a man as a genealogy. And so the Student Vagabond, having arrived at the ripe old age of three years, intends to delve into...
...RARE BEN JONSON?Byron Steel?Knopf ($3). ". . . Ben tries in vain to spear an eel with the newly-invented fork, and in exasperation flings the fork across the room. With his large hand he dips up an eel from its greasy dish and conveys it drippingly to his mouth. He smacks his lips loudly, and washes the eel down with a deep tankard of Canary. . . . "Ben sleeps heavily, and awakes the next morning in a dripping sweat, but with brave notions. . . . He always writes under these conditions. His drunken, salty sweat seems to bring him inspiration." Thus Author Steele...
...foremost writers of biography today, already known in this country for his studies of Napoleon and Wilhem HohenzoHern. In this new book, prefaced by an introduction on the writings of history, he deals with nineteen men of genius, Frederick the Great, Wilson, Bismarck, Lenin, Da Vinci, Voltaire, Rembrandt, Byron, Balzac, Shakespeare, Goethe and eight others. In this work one will find Ludwig's theory of the causes and effects of the appearance of a world genius in human society...
...South. The central figure is a bewildered Southern gentleman with whiskers, who finds that the Negroes no longer obey him; that reverence and elegance play little part in modern industrial life. These various factors are knit into an uneven play which kills four people (three offstage) every evening. Arthur Byron,* usually urbane and neatly pressed, does well with the bewhiskered ancient...
Married. Gustave Maurice Heck-sher, 43, real estate broker, son of August Hecksher, capitalist; to Luella Gear Chandler, 28, onetime comedienne in Queen High, musical comedy, and onetime wife of rich Byron Chandler. Mr. Hecksher was divorced last year in Paris by Louise Vanderhoff...