Word: dells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Little Accident. When faced with the problem of making a play out of Floyd Dell's The Unmarried Father, Novelist Dell and Playwright Thomas Mitchell realized that it would be necessary to change the name of the book. The Little Accident was their idea of an improvement; but, having contributed this, they kept their fingers out of the butter and effected a thoroughly charming comedy...
Miscellaneously, the year seems promising enough, as do all new seasons when viewed from the solstice. Beatrice Lillie will play in This Year of Grace and the Gershwins will supply songs in a new show for her old playmate Gertrude Lawrence. A play from Floyd Dell's The Unmarried Father will be called The Little Accident. The Private Life of Helen of Troy will at last be made public on the stage. Sam H. Harris, no relative of Jed, will exhibit the Marx Brothers, Harpo (mum), Groucho (chattering), Chico (wop) and Zeppo in Animal Crackers. Arthur Hammerstein plans...
...TIME remember its army of ardent women readers- workers all, who must have their night's rest in order to be equipped for their allotted portion of prosaic duties in this old workaday world. EFFIE DELL JOHNSON Deaconess Ravenswood Methodist Episcopal Church, Chicago...
FRESHMEN EXETER Dutton, r.f. l.g., Fremd Seeger, l.f. r.g., Parker Mahady, c. c., O'Dell Farrell, r.g. l.f., Ward Foshay, l.g. r.f., Reed...
...faced bed time simplicity when his spirit drooped. It is readable because the legions of sentences are compact and brisk of pace, the characters "stay put" and the antiCapitalistic sermon at the end only lasts a paragraph. Nevertheless, even so ardent a Socialist and generous a man as Floyd Dell must be suspected of gentle hypocrisy when he declares of Oil!: "I can hardly tear myself away from...