Word: famed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wife is Actress Peggy Wood of The Clinging Vine (musical show), Merchant of Venice (Portia), and Candida fame. Since becoming Mrs. John V. A. Weaver she has burst into print (Saturday Evening Post) with advice to would-be actors...
...great actresses of the last generation are difficult to appraise in this one, a time of more rapid reputations and artificial fame. Theirs was a period when the glamour of the stage seemed a more tangible thing. Because the roles they played were generally those of people far more splendid than real ones, the impersonators, subtly identified with their parts, became themselves remote and dazzling creatures. They lived, one imagines now, in a labyrinth of complex and uncomfortable luxury. Their lovers were lords or poets and their love affairs were not casual encounters but tragedies as poignant and improbable...
Such was the fame of his eloquence that he gave up the law for the bigger Chatau-qua money. Incessantly he spoke on the small tradesman and farmer, and wrote about them in The Commoner, weekly journal of one man's opinion, which endured through 22 years in spite of its spotty journalism and shortage of advertisements. For on principle Bryan refused to accept advertising of trust-made goods, though his sheet "reeked with patent medicine advertising." Indifferent to his meagre advertising columns, he reveled in belaboring the Republicans for their sins, championed religious freedom (the Dayton trial...
...York Evening World, Claude Gernade Bowers is a short, slim, dark, studious, scholarly, quiet man in his middle years. His specialty is early U. S. history. Like many a bookish man he has his villain-Alexander Hamilton-and his heroes-Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. He gained fame as an exciting speaker last winter when Democrats celebrated Jackson Day in Washington. His assignment as Keynoter at Houston put an entire political party and a huge radio audience at the vocal disposal of a man long confined to the indirect, often anonymous, medium of the scrivener. Mr. Bowers made...
...Story of Jesus -Emil Ludwig-translated by Eden and Cedar Paul-Boni & Liveright ($3.00). Emil Ludwig of Napoleon and Bismarck fame now tries his hand at a more dangerously familiar story-that of Jesus, Son of Man. Unadorned with the glittering paradoxes of Kenan's Vie, free from the sensationalism of Barbusse and the sentimentalism of Papini, clear of the pathos of the recent cinema version, Ludwig's is a popular, but none the less scholarly, interpretation. His indefatigable passion for historical records and documentary scraps immerses him in contemporary Latin and Greek commentaries, but chiefly...