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Died. Mrs. Ethelreda Lewis, sixtyish, onetime physical-culturist who dreamed of writing a big-seller and did it by chronicling in Trader Horn the fabulous and maybe apocryphal ivory-trading, gorilla-hunting adventures of chance-visitor Alfred Aloysius Smith; of a heart ailment; in Port Alfred, Cape Province, South Africa...
...week at Hollywood's Chinese Theatre. In 1928, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer sent two actresses, two actors, Director W. S. Van Dyke and some technicians on an eight-month junket into Africa to shoot the most capricious game of all?an idea. Alfred Aloysius Horn, 75, all-talking hero of Ethelreda Lewis' book, was their theme. Jungle hardships were ameliorated by an ice plant, good food-&-drink, comfortable housing. The real difficulties developed when the film arrived back in California. It would not jell; the script was rewritten endlessly. But last week MGM had its reward...
...Significance. Are conservative Houghton, Mifflin Co. treading the trail blazed by Simon & Schuster, fad promoters, publishers of Trader Horn and Cradle of the Deep? Is the Pedro Gorino another dubious "autobiography"? Like Ethelreda Lewis, amanuensis for Horn, Captain Dean's "assistant writer," Sterling North, met his subject receptively, admiringly. It was in March 1928, that University of Chicago authorities introduced them. Harry Dean, like Trader Horn, was broke, peddling his talents. North was 20, a poet, storyteller, student; Dean was 63, face sun-golden, hair silver, head ringing with words of Horace, Casanova, Cellini, Dumas. He had long been...
HAROLD THE WEBBED or THE YOUNG VIKINGS: Being Volume Two of the Life and Works of TRADER HORN-Alfred Aloysius Horn and Ethelreda Lewis-Simon and Schuster...
...face of such criticism, Ethelreda Lewis, discoverer, editor, and co-author of Trader Horn, maintains confidence in her garrulous and often tedious old peddler. And by way of backing up her publishers' brilliant advertising campaign, based as it is on the essential truth of Trader Horn, she writes a 52-page introduction to volume two, refuting all past and future doubts as to authenticity. She emphasizes the difficulty of computing dates because the trader's 74 years have (conveniently) mingled and mellowed into great confusion: instance his conviction that the Great War was in 1902. She records...