Word: hurst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the guise of Juryman Seven Fannie Hurst has pronounced the verdict that "the mental stature of a very large part of the public is that of a moron and more startling still that "the public great overgrown baby--is--clamoring for its bananas...
Apprenticeship to the sort of short story Miss Ferber has written-often slightly plotted, delicate character sketches in which the drama is of emotions rather than events-is splendid training for the writing of a novel. Compare So Big with Lummox (TIME, Oct. 29). Miss Hurst's book has passages of genius. Analyzed, however, it is a collection of sketches around a single theme. So Big, however, is in no sense a book written by an author wedded to short story technique. It is a fine novel. It moves steadily through its technical parts and its emotion value...
...Locke, Booth Tarkington, Leonard Merrick, is the most insidious invader of the English novel, the other tongues are not backward in their occasional donation of a cryptic phrase. Villains are at almost any moment likely to break out with a brisk donner-wetter. What would a volume by Fannie Hurst be thought of without an occasional lapse into some good expressive Yiddish? Haunch, Paunch and Jowl is plentifully spattered with the colorfully Hebraic...
...Significance. One of the best paid and most popular short story writers in America, here accepts and adapts expressionistic technique for the purpose of telling a simple and moving story. The result is by far the best work Miss Hurst has done?amazingly clever, astonishingly vivid in spite of occasional verbal extravagances, admirably sincere in intent...
...Author. Born in St. Louis in 1889, Miss Hurst received a B. A. degree from Washington University 20 years later. Now she enjoys Manhattan and has a scatter-brained puppy to amuse her. She says that she has sympathy for "the shoulders of charwomen as they scrub at night and the silhouettes of figures who sleep on wharves." She has tried the stage, and has worked in a Childs