Word: fitzgeralds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story* Sequels seem to be out of favor with most prominent American authors - heaven knows why! Hergesheimer, Lewis, Gather, Wharton, Fitzgerald, Dos Passes, et cetera - not one of them seems to care about carrying his or her characters through more than a single volume. Except for James Branch Cabell with his elaborate lineage of Lichfield, the pleasant custom of introducing a favorite character from one book into another seems for the present to have fallen into desuetude among us, at least among the more pretentious of our writers. Which makes it all the more pleasant to come across a volume...
...Oyster" and F. P. A.'s "Overset". But he has gone right ahead regardless. Now he must weather it through as best he can. Of course we cannot raise much of a tempest, for our spirit has been broken since Heywood Broun pronounced our review of Scott Fitzgerald to be "sophomoric"; although that critic has yet to prove how one can be anything but sophomoric when in Fitzgerald's company. We can forgive Mr. Broun, but we cannot let Christopher Morley off scot-free, for we love him too well...
...Chairman, J. R. Flather, Faith Bemis; J. K. Dow, Gwendolin Brooks; F. B. Allen, Margaret Hannington; P. J. FitzGerald, Mary FitzFerald; F. Flather; Leon Fletcher...
...noon, from noon to dewy eve, a summer's day" to fall from the pearly gates to the isle of Lemnos; but so far the direction is indeterminate. Perhaps Dr. Bautz, encouraged by the Homeric corroboration of his scientific computations, will enlist the aid of Einstein and F. Scott Fitzgerald to find on just which side of Paradise this infested sphere is whirling...
...VEGETABLE-F. Scott Fitzgerald-Scribner ($1.75). An Alger theme Fitzgeralded through three acts of a mildly amusing play. Jerry Frost was one of the 9,999 who, according to insurance statistics, would fail to be self-supporting at the age of 70. A meek and henpecked failure, he cherished two secret ambitions 1) to be President of These States or, failing that, 2) to be the very best postman in the world. Synthetic gin enabled him to gratify both desires, the first in what psychoanalysts call " the dream-life," the second in reality. In the act, where Frost thinks...