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...week's bill at the University. Appearing at the start as the saddened, wronged woman, her pitiful fate is written on her features with seemingly unreasonable lines. But, with the aid of movie magic, her characteristic expressions are soon reversed, she becomes the gorgeous young torch singer in a highbrow New York night club; she is a lithe figure, but experienced in handling men. She has learned...
Somerset Maugham is the fiction editor's Santa Claus. His stones are intelligent but not highbrow, well-made but not wooden, readable but not offensively scandalous. They are like the quiet but compelling conversation of a man who has seen the world and not missed much to the point. Sentimentalists find Maugham cynical, but in fact he is a psychological realist. Even sentimentalists find his common-sense melodramas refreshing after a surfeit of romance. This collection of stories is dedicated to one Ah King, a Onetime Chinese servant of Author Maugham's, who traveled with...
...Rebutting Dr. Lowell from New York, Secretary Carl Elias Milliken of the Hays organization observed: "Several years ago a cancellation clause was inserted in block-booking contracts permitting exhibitors to reject up to 10% of the films contracted for. . . . The managers used this clause to reject the so-called highbrow pictures...
...Manhattan hallway, where a policeman found his body; of coronary sclerosis. In Williamsport, Pa. he declared himself an artist at the age of 9, later began decorating safes, bandwagons, grocery stores when he was not boxing, wrestling, carousing. A roistering Rabelaisian to the last, he spat sulphuric scorn at highbrow art dealers, highbrow criticism, highbrow notions of technique, all living foreign artists and most dead ones except Rembrandt, Renoir and Franz Hals. Typical comment : "Da Vinci is the bunk - a mathematician, a subway digger." Died. Conrad E. Biehl, 67, Colorado's "glass eye king"; by his own hand (carbon...
...Mich., packed off to engineering college by his parents, he failed every course but rhetoric, did no better as a freight agent and gas company clerk, much better as a baseball reporter. After Satevepost readers had long guffawed over the frothy imbecilities of his "You Know Me Al" stories, highbrow critics discovered in him a painstaking artist with a phonographic ear for U. S. folk speech, in his enameled tales a gentle contempt for the people he wrote about. To the late William Bolitho he was "the greatest and sincerest pessimist American literature has yet produced." An owl-eyed, saturnine...