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Anthony Thorne looks not unlike Richard Halliburton, and both have the endearing faculty of telling tall tales. Last week Author Thome's third book made the resemblance seem even stronger. Though he has not yet taken the royal road to the ladies-lecture platform, Anthony Thorne is obviously hoping for Hollywood. Down Come the Trees is too improbable a yarn to impress even a hot-weather reader, but its cinematic possibilities are patent. The crudely-drawn celluloid silhouettes in his latest story can be seen through at a glance, but enlarged by Hollywood sound and fury they might well...
...Additional dialogue by Dorothy Parker" makes the story of "The Moon's Our Home" what it is--a delightful comedy brim full of witty Parkerisms. Faith Baldwin may have written the original story about two celebrities--one a Richard Halliburton and the other a Garboish actress--who hate one another's reputation, but fall in love under their original names of Brown and Smith, marry, and presumably fight ever after. But the spirit, praise be, is that of Miss Parker. Margaret Sullavan and Henry Fonda play the parts of the temperamental lovers with high-spirited zest. Charles Butterworth contributes...
First class on the Cunard White Star's S. S. Aquitania and fresh from a costly Thameside London hotel that ebullient Negro romanticist Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, the Richard Halliburton of his race, last week got home to Harlem from one more Glorious Adventure. With him he brought a 68-page hand-written manuscript titled, "Why I Resigned from the Abyssinian Army...
...opinion of Richard Halliburton, world adventurer and noted author of the "Royal Road to Romance" and numerous other books, college students as a whole are a much better lot than those of his day at Princeton...
...Halliburton, who graduated front Princeton with the class of '21, attributes the star of his adventurous career to an overwhelming desire to visit distant lands and to find unusual subjects for narrative stories. He believes in the extraordinary in travel and has numbered among his stunts in far-off places everything from swimming at midnight in the sacred pool of the Taj Mahal to crossing the Alps by elephant in the footsteps of Hannibal. "While on my travels I live in the time of 5 B.C., the modern world then means little to me," he stated...