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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...became a school teacher there, now teaches in the English Department of Central State Teachers College (summer session). Reserved, hard to get acquainted with, Author McClinchey feels natural in the woods, is an expert canoeist, and can handle a launch in a heavy sea. Joe Pete, her first novel, is the Christmas choice of the Book League of America...
...Merry Widow first appeared in Manhattan in 1907, was last revived in 1921. The Widow of the present revival is a comely Dutchwoman, Beppie de Vries, who sings Franz Lehar's score considerably better than the rest of the cast and wheels through the famed waltz with the requisite abandon...
Author Markovits writes from his own experience: he was taken prisoner by the Russians in 1915 and spent six years in Siberian prison camps. His book, which made little stir on its first publication in Transylvania, was taken up by Budapest critics, is now being published simultaneously in nine countries...
Emil Ludwig is chiefly famed for biographies (Napoleon, Bismarck, The Son of Man, July '14); Diana is his first novel to be translated into English...
...authentic. Author S. Guy Endore bases his account of Casanova on the Memoirs, then takes the wind out of his hero's sails by pointing out, at the end of each chapter, the biggest whoppers. But Author Endore, a good Casanovist, is a sympathetic interpreter. This is the first of his books. He has translated from the German Franz Blei's Fascinating Women, Hans Heinz Ewers' Alraune (TIME...