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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another Thin Man (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Made as a quickie in 14 days by Producer Hunt Stromberg and Director W. S. Van Dyke II, the first Thin Man revealed some surprising facts...
Most library exhibitions are the englassed sort which chiefly interest bibliophiles-rare first editions, original manuscripts, fine bindings, and such. Of a different sort is an exhibition now showing at Chicago's Newberry Library...
...Harvard dormitory was Stone & Kimball's first office. Herbert Stuart Stone, described as a "martinet" in appearance, an "exquisite" in taste, was the son of the founder-editor of the Chicago Daily News...
...they had introduced to U. S. readers such little known or unknown writers as W. B. Yeats, Ibsen, Maeterlinck, Anatole France, H. G. Wells, Max Beerbohm, Symbolist Poets Verlaine, Mallarme, Rimbaud, as well as the poetry of Stephen Crane, the fiction of Henry James. They published one of the first (and still classic) examples of the new realism, Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware. Their designers were (and still are) the best in the country: Bruce Rogers, Updike, Goudy. A little heard-of French painter named Toulouse-Lautrec made an advertising poster for them. The Chap-Book...
...which could be called good second-rate, some had first-rate assets-usually on the side of their entertainment value-but were definitely second-grade when placed alongside the best novels of their kind. They were...