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...Author. Though her first novel East Wind, West Wind (1929) passed comparatively unnoticed, Authoress Buck's second, The Good Earth, has taken the public's fancy to the tune of 22 printings, has recently been dramatized by Owen Davis & Son Donald, will be presented by the Theater Guild next autumn. A good tale, though of lesser scope, The Young Revolutionist, depicting Chinese idealism swing Christ-wards, will be many a missionary's meat. Mrs. Buck's Virginia parents, named Sydenstricker, were missionaries. She was born in China. Her husband heads Nanking University's farm management department. She well knows...
...Boston last week William Henry Cardinal O'Connell addressed, as "a Catholic citizen," the Guild of St. Apollonia. Said he: ''The radio presents a new problem. There is a man in Florida or Michigan, I forget which,* who talks every Sunday afternoon...
...shuttered, musty, little shop stood on the edge of the canal, next to the sumptuous guild of the moneylenders. On its lintel was the cryptic legend, "speak of nothing but business, and speak quickly. To the merchant-princes of the guild, who saw it in passing, it might have seemed like the humble bootleg of a cobbler. Not the most fortunate of them would know that within it countries of the mind were being discovered, vaster than the lands toward which another Italian was sailing in the same year. Entering, he would have found the flower of Venetian scholarship gathered...
...Cresson scholarship two years in succession, studied painting in Vienna in 1919-20 when Austria was falling to pieces. Director Max Reinhardt was doing magnificent things on the stage of the Bourg Theatre. After one season in Detroit, Jo Mielziner was taken up by the New York Theatre Guild. Since then he has designed sets for 56 productions, a list including such memorable and diverse productions as The Guardsman, The Wild Duck, Strange Interlude, Street Scene, first, second and third Little Shows, The Barretts of Wimpale Street, Of Thee I Sing, Bloodstream (see p. 45). More important to last week...
...literati. Of his study of Emerson, he says: "What I wished to convey was a convincing and joyously infectious image of genius . . . meeting and solving . . . the problems that had appeared insoluble in my other cases." His contagiously enthusiastic case history of Emerson is the April selection of the Literary Guild...