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WILL SHAKSPERE: FACTOTUM AND AGENT - Alden Brooks - Round Table Press ($3). Somebody else tries to prove that Shakspere, the country cutup, could not have written Shakespeare's plays and poems. Iconoclast Brooks says the real "Shakespeare" was a syndicate (Marlowe, Lyly, Greene, Peele, Nashe...
These three men were selected by the 250 odd members of P. B. H. out of a panel of nine Juniors. Kaltenborn has been chairman of the Foreign Student Committee during the past year and is a member of the present cabinet, headed by Raymond Dennett '36, retiring factotum...
...Authors. Helmuth Carl Engelbrecht, Columbia Ph. D., 39, pacifist, associate editor of The World Tomorrow, met Frank Cleary Hanighen, Harvardman, 35, then editorial factotum with Publisher Dodd, Mead, last autumn, discovered a mutual interest in munitions makers, decided to collaborate. Each had already written one book: Engelbrecht, a study of Johann Gottlieb Fichte; Hanighen, a biography of Santa Anna. Roving Newshawk George Seldes, brother to Litterateur Gilbert Seldes, has taken the lid off many a pot of trouble, stirred it with journalistic zeal. Onetime reporter on the Chicago Tribune, he has dabbled in Art, is now a freelance, has written...
...against a rattle of percussives. The first short scene made Metropolitan listeners fear that another opera was about to be given in English which they could not understand. Soprano Pearl Besuner, made up as a haggish black woman, was almost unintelligible as she informed Smithers, Jones's cockney factotum, that the natives had rebelled, gathered on a distant hill to hatch Jones's death. Tenor Marek Windheim's cockney accent only added to the confusion. But then Baritone Lawrence Tibbett swaggered on the stage...
...handled the Navy's Press relations during the War, caught the eye of the Assistant Secretary whom he helped campaign in 1920. A year ago he left Pathé Newsreel to go to Albany as the Governor's personal Press representative and later as general factotum and business manager of his campaign. Few White House visitors will see his cadaverous face...