Word: casanovas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doren called the Society "a conspicuous nuisance in the community." Heywood Broun, co-biographer with Margaret Leech (Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer) of Anthony Comstock, said that the plaintiff's reputation was "bad." Artist Rockwell Kent testified that by emphasizing the "filth" in books which it disapproves (notably Jurgen, Casanova's Homecoming and The Well of Loneliness) the Society has boosted sales of such books beyond normal by bringing them to the attention of eroticurious minds...
...CASANOVA'S HOMECOMING - Arthur Schnitzler - Simon & Schuster...
Died. Cardinal Vincenzo Casanova y Marzol, Archbishop of Granada, 76; in Saragossa, Spain...
...Hero Casanova Jones, "a gentleman sober, a gentleman blotto," is a Prohibition agent whose wife runs a speakeasy. Beautiful but thick Annabel Cloy imagines herself a poet, and is overjoyed when Casanova, pretending to be a publisher, says he will print her Poems of Passion, is enraged when she discovers his duplicity. From this out, the plot becomes more and more revue-worthy. In the end Casanova, in a vain attempt to regain Annabel's affections, goes deliberately to jail by selling liquor on the street. His example becomes popular...
...Casanova Jones is profusely illustrated by Artist Willy Pogany...