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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past directed "Charles and Mary," "Napeleon Intrudes," and "The Watched Pot." Last spring he was the director of the Broadway success "The Pure in Heart," written by John Howard Lawson, also author of "Success Story." In the summer he managed the Millbrook, N. Y. Theatre. To him John Dos Passes dedicated three plays, including "The Garbage Man," and "The Moon is a Gong...
Editor Van Doren has tried to include big, smart or portentous figures of the last 20 years. Some of those present: Sherwood Anderson, James Branch Cabell, Willa Gather, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Evelyn Scott, Edith Wharton, Glenway Wescott, Thornton Wilder. Readers may raise puzzled eyebrows at lesser-known names: Carl Becker, Albert Halper, Eleanor Rowland Wembridge. Nowhere to be found are such names as Upton Sinclair, Conrad Allen, Hervey Allen, Louis Bromfield, Walter Lippmann, T. S. Stribling. Looking back...
...Malcolm Cowley was born 35 years ago on a western Pennsylvania farm, spent all his summers there. He left Harvard in 1917 to drive a munitions truck in the French Army, later transferred to the American Ambulance Service, like his colleagues Ernest Hemingway, e. e. cummings, Edmund Wilson, John Dos Passos. After several years' free-lancing in Manhattan and two years in France, he settled down in the U. S. to make his literary fortune, bought an upstate farm (on which he made the first payment with a cash poetry prize), was an editor of the late Broom, wrote...
COMPANY PARADE-Storm Jameson- Knopf ($2.50). Sooner or later most novelists worth their salt come to grips with a Big Subject. Fortnight ago Storm Jameson showed she has tackled hers. Like U. S. Author John Dos Passos (The 42nd Parallel, 1919), French Author Jules Remains (Men of Good Will), English Author Jameson has taken the contemporary scene as her model. Like theirs, her picture will be years in the making. Company Parade, which merely introduces the principal characters, is "the first of perhaps five, or six novels"; her finished magnum opus will be called The Mirror in Darkness. Readers...
Died. Le Baron Russell Briggs, 79, longtime Harvard clean & English professor; suddenly, of a heart ailment; while visiting his daughter in Milwaukee. Famed as a teacher of writing, he taught: Earl Derr Biggers, E. E. Cummings, Joseph Auslander, John Dos Passes, Frederick Lewis Allen, Conrad Aiken, Robert Benchley...