Word: editor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confused with U. S. Editor Robert ("Droch") Bridges of Scribner's Magazine...
...Significance of the writings of Authors Mencken & Nathan has increased steadily since they formed their literary vaudeville team. Readers of the American Mercury, of which Mr. Mencken is editor, Mr. Nathan, dramatic reviewer, have smirked at the pair with the nervously good-natured tolerance that a stupid child affects when he sees "Billy is a fool" written upon the school wall. Intelligent critics realize the formula upon which these angry, mocking mimes base their performance. The grotesqueries which they flay are often genuine; but most intelligent people find more important things to think about than such grotesqueries. The admirers...
...socially although certain vulgarisms which he permits himself in private have led to a contrary impression. His writing career began in his native town, on the Baltimore Sun, to the editorial staff of which he now belongs. With Mr. Nathan he rose to repute as one of the editors of the Smart Set, and to fame as the editor of the American Mercury which the two started in 1923. Two years ago he toured, in eccentric fashion, part...
...Alfred Spender, author and onetime editor of the Westminster Gazette, has come to the U. S. to study newspapers. He has come as First Senior Fellow of the American Newspaper Fellowships founded in memory of Walter Hines Page, onetime Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
Frank Crowninshield, famed editor of Vanity Fair, Forbes Watson, editor of The Arts, William Henry McBride, Jacob Epstein,† lyn Museum of Art, Art Critic Henry McBride, Jacob Epstein,* famed sculptor, agreed that "The Bird" was a worthy example of fine art. Most emphatic was Sculptor Epstein, who brought with him to court a 5,000 year old piece of stone, reputed to be an Egyptian representation of a hawk. "It is a matter of indifference what it represents," said Sculptor Epstein, "but if the artist calls it a bird, so do I. In this there are certain elements...