Word: donning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Other critics had been kinder to Miss Foster. When Playwright Don Mullaly's Conscience opened in Manhattan, in 1924, Actress Foster made a hit, saw her name in lights.
A VARIETY OF PEOPLE-Don Marquis- Doubleday-Doran ($2).
Don Marquis is an ex-colyumist who has taken to writing "seriously." But he is still enough of the colyumist to feel that he should sugar the pill. In this book of short stories, the grim alternates with the comic strip, the eerie with the whimsical. Among the exhibits: a...
Don Marquis can write simply, but would rather write arabesques. When he rides his high horse, he is a long way off the ground. But sometimes he gets a startling phrase. In The Right Knife he describes a night club servant as "a pallid night-blooming waiter who was a...
The characters in this book are not really a variety of people, they are a variety of Don Marquis moods.