Word: dell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the Manhattan office of American Fiction Guild, which is the apartment of its President Arthur J. Burks, went two exciting market tips to woodpulp magazine writers last week. One was that the editors of Dell Publishing Co.'s three "pulps" need new material. The other: that Clayton Magazines are again paying on acceptance of stories (instead of on publication), which meant that their literary inventory is near bottom...
...Heywood Broun, Lincoln Steffens, Floyd Dell, Director William A. Hodson of the New York Welfare Council, Lawyer Jerome Frank, Vice President Sheldon R. Coons of Lord & Thomas (advertising), one-time Mayor Henry Thomas Hunt of Cincinnati, Morris Greenberg of Paramount Publix Corp., Parole Director Winthrop D. Lane of the State of New Jersey. John M. Kaplan, proprietor of Hearn's department store in Manhattan, many a New York college professor. Hessian Hills' aim is a socialized group in which the pupils feel a sense of communal enterprise and responsibility. Much of its success has resulted from the intelligence...
...July 4 issue of TIME your discussion of Plain Talk magazine recalls a real journalistic firebrand, Geoffrey Dell Eaton, who founded it, and died June...
...York Committee headed by John Don Passos, has enrolled such prominent figures in both literary and social service work as: Sherwood Anderson, Floyd Dell, Babette Deutch, Waldo Frank, Corliss Lamont, Lewis Mumford, John Cowper Powys, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, and Genevieve Taggard...
...commedia dell'arte, the drama hat set the patterns for Harlequin, Columbine, Pierrot and Pantaloon, is a favorite subject for romantic poets, water color painters, and lecturers on The Drama. They are apt to forget that there exists in the U. S. a lusty native parallel of the commedia to teach esthetes what a real old Harlequinade was like: the Burlesque Show. Like the commedia before the days of the great Debureau, Burlesque is vulgar entertainment catering to the masses, often frankly obscene. Like the commedia, Burlesque is based on "bits" that have been handed down from one troupe...