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Italianate Englishman Max ("The Inimitable Max") Beerbohm, 61, lighter-than-air essayist who wrote his last book, Around Theatres, in 1930, was among those elevated to a knighthood on King George's birthday honors list. Forgiven, if not forgotten was his 40-year-old gibe: "Knighthood is a cheap commodity these days. It is modern Royalty's substitute for largesse and it is scattered broadcast. Though all would sneer at it, there are few whose hands would not gladly grasp the dingy patent...
Thomas Mann. world-famous novelist and essayist, will give an informal lecture tonight in the Lowell House Tower room at a meeting of the German Club at 9 o'clock. The meeting will be open only to members of the club...
Died. Zona Gale Breese, 64, novelist, essayist, playwright (Birth, Preface to a Life, Yellow Gentians and Blue); of pneumonia; in Chicago. In 1921 she won a Pulitzer prize for her dramatization of her own novel, Miss Lulu Bett...
...years later he was the hero of the bitterly fought Reform Bill. At 33 he was a member of the supreme council of India. (Resigning five years later, Macaulay left behind a new Indian penal code and educational system, had saved ?30,000.) He became the most successful English essayist (sometimes so intoxicated with erudite digressions that he wound up lamely saying that space did not permit him to finish); and a historian whose publishers gladly sent him ?20,000 advance royalties on the last volume of his History of England. Thus ugly, harsh-voiced Thomas Macaulay seemed...
Eight Etudes for Symphony Orchestra (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS) respectively dedicated by Composer Robert Russell Bennett to Composer-Conductor Walter Damrosch, Novelist-Essayist Aldous Huxley, Actor-Playwright Noel Coward, Carl Hubbell, all Dictators, Human Faith, Painter Eugene Speicher, the Ladies. They are given their first public performance by Howard Barlow's orchestra...