Word: hervey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TOWARD THE FLAME-Hervey Allen-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Re-issue (first published 1926) of a first-rate war diary, by the author of Anthony Adverse...
...Bible Belt, what has become of the Insuil interests? Greece, all Greece, and only a sordid tale of a mistress who turns out to be somebody else's maid of Athens. Nor has the West Coast, the Gold Coast, forgotten to keep up its reputation. Hervey L. Clarke of General Theatres Equipment, and William L. Fox of Fox Films, managed to pull faster ones in the financial world than they would ever have dreamed of trying to foist off on their patrons in the name of melodrama. So the role of honor might be extended indefinitely. Those on it perfected...
Among books, best seller was Hervey Allen's 2f-lb. Anthony Adverse, yet this super-romance was a retrogression in literary technique...
...picture, Ernest Barringer (Otto Kruger), is a criminal lawyer. However, if the two were arguing a case, the odds would be on Simon. Barringer has quick wits but he is a sentimentalist and a solitary drinker. These faults lead him into easily imagined predicaments. When a young girl (Irene Hervey) requests him to defend her father for killing her stepmother, Barringer glances at a photograph of the stepmother and utters a low neurotic moan. She is his onetime wife, whose portrait, for a decade, he has kept among the bottles in his desk. By the time he is ready...
Anthony Adverse, by Hervey Allen...