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...Jewish. With Charles MacArthur (husband of Actress Helen Hayes) he wrote the Broadway smash-hit The Front Page; with the same collaborator has written a new play that will be produced this year. Other books: Gargoyles, Erik Darn, 1001 Afternoons in Chicago, The Florentine Dagger, Humpty Dumpty, Broken Necks, Fantazius Mallare (limited and suppressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Done to a Turn* | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...Hecht, novelist, playwright: "Charged with sending obscene matter throught the mails, Wallace Smith (illustrator) and I will go on trial Feb. 4 before Judge W. C. Lindley, of Chicago. The name of the book which caused us trouble is Fantazius Mallare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Dec. 17, 1923 | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

...suddenly are brought to bear upon the impossible and it is accomplished. He does too much. His plays just miss being brilliant. His novels suffer from a lack of taste which would undoubtedly be ironed out in a second writing. When he started to write a Rabelaisian fantasy in Fantazius Mallare he was only adolescent in his pornography and was consequently affected. His last book, a detective story, The Florentine Dagger, he claims to have written in ten hours. It's not a bad yarn. I am told, however, that, dictating as rapidly as one is able, it would scarcely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Blind Bow-Boy* | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

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