Word: doren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Play Worlds SHAKESPEARE-Mark Van Doren-Holt...
...spent some of his time in Hollywood (which he hated), most of it around the New York theatre. This fall he was to have put on his first play under the banner of Manhattan's new, highly successful Playwrights company, was working on an adaptation of Van Doren's biography of Benjamin Franklin the morning he was killed. That morning also, Father-in-law Damrosch got word that Martin Wolfe, another daughter's divorced husband, had died from a fall July 30 while mountain climbing in Tibet...
...fictioneers ad lib stories to fit mystery-tale situations contributed by listeners. Sample situation Why did Little Nell scorn Dick Goodfellow to marry Squire Sourpuss? Regular aides to Perelman are Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee, a detectifiction team known as Ellery Queen. Guests have included Dorothy Parker, Carl Van Doren Heywood Broun, Rupert Hughes, Ruth McKenney, Ludwig Bemelmans, Alice Duer Miller, Henry F. Pringle. Impaired at first by talkiness and the occasional complete blankness of literary minds, Author, Author has pepped up considerably since its start, April...
...apart as Chile and China, delegates from Australia, Uruguay, Finland, South Africa-Germany's Thomas Mann and Ernst Toller, Spain's Pedro Salinas, China's Lin Yutang, France's André Maurois, the U. S.'s Dorothy Thompson, Henry Seidel Canby, Carl Van Doren, Vincent Sheean. But many of the delegates (German, Italian, Spanish) could claim no country...
...best-selling novel, The Yearling, plump Marjorie Kinnan Rowlings was awarded this year's Pulitzer Prize. Other winners: Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood (his second), for Abe Lincoln in Illinois; Biographer Carl Van Doren, for Benjamin Franklin; Scripps-Howard Correspondent Thomas L Stokes, for exposing WPA in Kentucky politics...