Word: danae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FOURTH MYSTERY BOOK-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Six mystery novellas by such practiced hands as Mary Roberts Rinehart, Mignon Eberhart, Hugh Pentecost, and one newcomer, Dana Lyon, who turns in the best item, I'll Be Glad When You're Dead. An omnibus book that is right up to its predecessors in quality and quantity...
Neiley said that Madame Litvinoff had been invited to become a sponsor by Professor H. W. L. Dana of Cambridge, an authority on the contemporary Russian drama, when he was in Washington last weekend. At the same time the H. D. C. president announced that Madame Litvinoff would probably not be able to attend the performance...
...many ways Billy De Beck lived a life as unreal as the comic-strip characters he fathered. When he was at high school in Chicago he drew imitation Charles Dana Gibson pictures, peddled them for profit. He did cartoons for a theatrical weekly and for several newspapers. But he stayed poor until he turned out a correspondence course on "How to be a cartoonist and make big money." He sold thousands of copies for $1 apiece. He was doing a so-so successful strip, "Married Life," for the Chicago Herald at $35 a week when King Features hired...
...soldiers at the front there are touring companies which include in their repertoires plays of all nations, Dana said. One of the favorite writers is Shakespeare, who is probably produced more in the Soviet Union than in either England or America...
...Dana also devoted some time to a discussion of "Mashenka," which he discovered for the club, and to the new plays based on Russia's military past, which are now very common in Moscow...