Word: harper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SANCTUARY ! SANCTUARY !-Dallas Lore Sharp-Harper ($2.50). Most latterday naturalists collect for museums and write for the news- papers. Not so Mr. Sharp. When he lies on his stomach for hours watching a painted turtle dig her nest, or stays awake all night on the Pacific shore to hear the night cries of snowy plover, he is wholly an amateur of wild life. His books are secretions, not products or "copy." Hence, perhaps, the freshness and simplicity of his writing. He never seeks to impress his audience with the extent of his lore, and his experiences have been so diverse...
...SUTTER'S GOLD - Blaise Cendrars-Harper...
...PAINTED ROOM - Margaret Wilson-Harper ($2). A second generation of the Kenworthys, in need of tolerance...
...CASE OF MR. CRUMP-Ludwig Lewisohn-Harper ($2). A mismated musician...
Loose Ankles. Stale stuff from older plays, peppery wit, audacious hashing-and Playwright Janney concocts a diverting theatrical creature. A last testament commanding marriage stirs Ann Harper to rebellion. She will hire a gigolo* wherewith to shock this tyrannical family of hers. The scheme seems harmless enough. But when a young, amateurish gigolo appears and Ann plays something by Tschaikoysky on the piano, virulent sentimentality sets in, and the condition of the play becomes critical. Numerous first-nighters reached for their hats. In the nick of time, the scene shifts back to the private life of the four gigolos...