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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. McClelland Barclay, 42, illustrator; by Helene Marie Haskin Barclay. 23, his model for Fisher Body advertisements; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty...
...Austin, Annah Blood, Beatrice Cohen, Hazel Crockett, Alice Dickson, Margaret Fish, Elizabeth Fisher, Louise Fielding, Sylvia Greenfield, Joan Henning, Betty Howe, Elizabeth Lincoln, Eisa Marlow, Polly Mittel, Eleanor Ovaus, Mignonne Politz, Ruth Rubinsky, Florence Usher, Helen Savage and Henrietta Young...
Latest addition to the ranks of U. S. tetralogy-writers is Author Vardis Fisher. He will not be the least. The first volume of his projected four shows enough of his hand to indicate that he will have to be reckoned with. In Tragic Life is not his first novel nor is this its first edition: it was published early this year by Caxton Printers, Caldwell, Idaho. Readers whose stomachs cannot stand strong meat had better not dip in here, but for those who can, its morbidly realistic sauce will not conceal its true tragic flavor...
...Author Fisher does not share the popular superstition that childhood is a happy, happy time. Certainly the childhood of Vridar Hunter was not happy. Eldest son of a poor Idaho farmer and his puritanic wife, Vridar grew up in a shack where food was scarce, comfort unheard-of, with no companions but his younger brother and sister. His parents did not think farming the noblest occupation of man; they were grimly determined that their children should get an education and escape to something better. Vridar was a sensitive, delicate child, subject to convulsions and haunting fears. The sight of blood...
Author Vardis Fisher is working on the next volume, to be called Passion Spins the Plot...