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Divorced. Ben Hecht, 36, famed Manhattan-born Chicago author-journalist (Eric Dorn, Humpty Dumpty), by the former Marie Armstrong, critic, who was granted $3,500 a year alimony and the custody of their nine-year-old daughter; in Chicago...
...Pretzfeld, Chairman, Miss Katherine Krauss; R. W. Pretzfeld, Miss Edith Gluck; Alexander Kelley, Miss Dorothy Recht; Morris Newburger, Miss Beatrice Exstein; Edwin Steefel, Miss Katherine Hecht; C. A. Jacobson, Miss Claire Schoenberger; M. K. Stern, Miss Frances Thalheimer; J. Morse, Miss P. Florsheim; G. Hirsch, Miss Helen van Dernoot; F. L. Wattendorf, Miss D. B. Stressenger; F. F. Stoner, Miss G. F. Hickie; R. E. Fiske, Miss Alice Whittaker...
...Author Hecht, Cursing, Burrows Morbidly through the Loams of Illusion...
...Author. It may seem surprising that Author Hecht is not notorious as a violent madman. This intelligently savage Savaron biography is an improvisation upon his own. But Mr. Hecht, though dark, shaggy and demonaical of mien, managed to continue for 13 years as a trusted employe of The Chicago Journal and The Chicago Daily News; he is now at large in Manhattan as press agent for Joseph Schildkraut in The Firebrand. Aged 31, he has a wife and two children. He is kind to dogs, children and old people. From this it would appear that his state of mind, however...
Born of Slavic parentage at Racine, Wis., Mr. Hecht punctuated his career in Chicago with Eric Dorn, "most ar resting novel of 1921." Humpty Dumpty is a replica of that book, with new characters and an amplified concatenation of philosophical firecrackers. Other Hechtiana: A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago (sketches), Gargoyles (flaying journalistic and juridical hypocrisies), The Florentine Dagger (a mystery novel, alleged to have been written in 24 hours, on a bet), Fantasius Mallare and its sequel, The Kingdom of Evil (studies in the elephantiasis of carnal lust, for the first of which Author Hecht, being poor...