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...story of life in St. Henri, a smoky slum section of Montreal, she mailed a copy to her brother. Reynal & Hitchcock agreed to publish it. They changed the title to The Tin Flute, and had the book translated into English. Then New York's Literary Guild, whose million members make it the largest book club in the world, read the manuscript. It announced that The Tin Flute will be its May selection, the first work of a French Canadian to be chosen. The Guild's first printing of 625,000 copies will yield author and publishers...
...Importance of Being Earnest (by Oscar Wilde; produced by the Theatre Guild & John C. Wilson in association with H. M. Tennent, Ltd.) brings John Gielgud back to Broadway for the first time since his Hamlet in 1936. In the interim, the 42-year-old Englishman has played Hamlet at Elsinore, offered British playgoers a cavalcade of the classics, given London a repertory company to rival the Old Vic. For his present visit, Gielgud apparently questioned the importance of being earnest: he would frivol first in Wilde's classic farce, later in Congreve's Restoration comedy, Love for Love...
...free adaptation of Volpone, translated from the German of Stefan Zweig, was produced by the Theatre Guild...
...monopoly's was before the strike. People bought it, ignoring strikers' pleas to take out-of-town papers instead. Sherman Bowles has reached a truce with his pressmen and stereotypers and hopes to talk his printers into working without a contract. His dispirited employees of the Newspaper Guild, who struck only after he fired them, might be left out in the cold if the other unions went back to work...
Last week in Camden, whose strikebound Courier and Post await a buyer, the Guild started a daily of its own. The 3? Camden Free Press, printed 30 miles away in Wilmington, started out with a 30,000 press run, plenty of ads, a non-salaried staff, a Guild shop...