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...fellow playwrights went absolutely Gorky ("Dawn over Mexico, and the lone voice of a heartbroken whore singing in a cribhouse"), but one production after another lost money. "It's the goddam critics' fault," Jed sneered. When the theater folded. Jed went to hack in a hell called Hollywood: "His heart jumped in his chest. For the first time it occurred to him that now he was going to be rich." He got rid of his first wife ("a peasant") and married his second (who gave his life a "Brahmin note...
...room. Every page she wrote passed under Willy's practiced editorial eye ("Have I married the last of the lyric poets?" he would snarl, if the prose was sappy). By 1904, Colette was a trained craftsman-and fed up with the life of a tormented hack. At 31, after twelve years of marriage, Colette broke with Willy...
Died. Sidonie-Gabrielle Claudine Co lette Gauthier-Villars de Jouvenel Goudeket (Colette), 81, called by Poet Paul Claudel "the greatest living writer in France" (Cheri, Gigi); of a heart ailment; in Paris. At 20, Colette married Henri Gauthier-Villars, a potboiling hack who won fame by publishing under his own name the novels he forced her to turn out, in turn did much to teach her a style as ruthlessly chaste as her heroines were unchaste. Colette depicted quietly desperate women in love and in bed, became the most honored female writer in France's history, first woman president...
...long as a year ago. Pocket Books' Executive Vice President Freeman Lewis estimated that unsold paperbacks numbered 175 million. By this spring, the "enormous pipeline." as one publisher put it, was hopelessly clogged. Said one publishing spokesman: "Most of this was hack stuff, trash. The public rebelled." No publisher and few readers wanted to see the paperbacks disappear. Along with the rubbish have come reprints of first-rate writing, e.g., Faulkner and Hemingway. Low paperback prices-in contrast with prohibitively priced hard-cover books-attracted a whole new reading public. Some publishers believe that the present shake...
...Lovelorn. In Chicago, police nabbed Carl Mannelli and John Thomas on the roof of the Wisconsin Packing Co. with an assortment of wrenches and a hack saw, took them off to jail despite Mannelli's plea: "Honest, we were just looking for girls...