Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fancies, satires, slap-sticks of their native city. Merry, squint-eyed Fred Allen, whose voice sounds as though it ran over a ratchet, is chief wisecracker. Elongated Clifton Webb does a variety of turns, from elegant ballroom maneuvers to a parody of the John Erskine school of historical fiction. At one point, dressed as a Carthaginian warrior, he keeps languidly remarking: "Oh nuts!" It was in the best interests of mirth to revive George S. Kaufman's skit in which two blase hotel guests discover that the house is on fire. Instead of leaving, they stay to entertain...
...occasion of Sir James's effort last week was a banquet-benefit staged for the Newspaper Press Fund. Major the Hon. John Jacob Astor, M.P., presided. Present was Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin who, as everyone knows, is addicted to detective fiction...
...great mass of his public cherishes him for quite another reason: dean of mystery and detective fiction, he has written 400-odd short stories, and, at the last census, 140 full-length yarns. One in every four books sold in England is by Wallace, and the tremendous sale in Germany, the U. S., Australia and South Africa, brings his yearly total to 5,000,000 copies. His U. S. publishers are boasting "a Wallace per month" for the next twelve months, and his German Verlag distributes a catalog two-thirds of which concerns Wallace Detektiv-Romane and Theaterstücken...
Thornton Niven ("Bridge of San Luis Rey") Wilder threw light upon his past work, and perhaps suggested the nature of future accomplishment, when he announced last week to fiction-conscious Bostonians that: "Literature is the orchestration of platitudes...
...Rand '94 will receive a grant for a survey of the manuscripts of Tours and work on Horace, Virgil, and Ovid. C. N. Greenough '98, Professor of English is enabled to secure an assistant and two cataloguers to assist him in preparing a bibliography of English prose fiction...