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...Chicago Daily News, slowly building a powerhouse foreign staff (Raymond Swing, later Negley Farson, John Gunther), was getting more interested in Europe. Paul pulled his mop-haired, earnest younger brother Edgar out of the Latin Quarter, where Edgar was composing critical essays on French dramatists, sent him off to the front as a correspondent. Edgar occasionally annoyed the home office by leading a battle story with an apt piece of Latin verse, but he did increasingly well...
Author Negley Farson (The Way of a Transgressor) has broken into the movies at 50 with Blitz Hotel. Director Maurice Elvey got the idea while staying at the Savoy, in 20 minutes talked Farson into writing the scenario. The scene will be the inside of a big London hotel between the hours of 7 p.m. and 7 a.m.; personal appearances by such familiar Londoners as Lord Castlerosse, the Countess of Oxford and Asquith, Carroll Gibbons and Manning Sherwin will add a touch of realism. Says Farson: "The story is fiction, but the bombardment outside is undeniable fact...
...STORY OF A LAKE-Negley Farson -Harcourt, Brace...
Last fortnight Negley Farson did at last crack up-but only fictitiously, in a semi-autobiographical novel about a famous U. S. newspaperman who ends up drinking himself to death in a backwoods cabin in British Columbia. An awkwardly constructed, Lost Generation novel, teeming with love affairs, ineffective cures for alcoholism, neurotic athleticism, it will be read for its confessional thrills. But it will arouse little sympathy, despite the alibi that its drunken hero is an idealist "still searching for the impossible in love, still clinging to many of his childhood ecstasies and still uncalloused...
...Negley Farson was born too late. In the heydey of Harold Bell Wright he could not have failed, with that hero and those backwoods, to write an inspirational novel which would have sold a million...