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ACTION AT AQUILA-Hervey Allen-Farrar & Rinehart...
...copies a day. In that dark season of the book trade, when a novel that sold 5,000 copies could get on best-seller lists, Anthony Adverse became "the fastest selling book in American history," with sales reaching 235.000 copies in six months, 450,000 in one year. Author Hervey Allen bought a farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland with part of his proceeds, started work on a historical novel about upstate New York, got 50,000 letters about his big romance. Anthony Adverse, still going strong, has been translated into ten languages, sold to the movies, with...
There who have been puzzled over the exact meaning of the expresion "If I were you" find one interpretation of the cryptic words offered in the play of that name by Paul Hervey Fox and Benn W. Levy. These dramatists say that their farce was suggested by an idea in a novel of Thorne Smith's, but their debt would seem greater than they thereby admit. Their end is physic research not yet reduced to scientific terms; their media are sex and the bathroom. Through the resulting fantastic extravaganza Constance Cummings barges with considerable gusto. The situations...
...books like Hervey Allen's Toward The Flame, big battles are presented from the plain soldier's point of view as little more than explosions of murderous confusion. Captain Liddell Hart's A History of the World War, caustically analyzing the strategy of opposing generals, gives the impression that battles were almost as confusing to the professionals who planned and directed them. Readers who want to add to their knowledge of what happened at the Somme, the Marne, Cambrai, St. Mihiel, Mons-and why it happened as it did-can get some insight into the confusion from...
Jimmie convinces the Hathaways that Pearl, whom he introduces as Virginia Lee, a cultured, stage-struck socialite, will back their company if she is given a bit part. Vehicle for the Broadway opening is The Mikado, with Danforth singing the lead, Frank Moulan the Lord High Executioner, and Irene Hervey, most fetching in a kimono, chorusing Three Little Maids from School with Vivian Hart and Carita Crawford. The finale is interrupted when conscience, stirred by the sound of approaching police sirens, impels Jimmie to reveal that the show has no backing and the house has been "papered" (packed free...