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...appearance to radio audiences, which necessitates writing her script in triple-size type. A great one for entertaining, she lives in an 18-room Beverly Hills mansion, which she has furnished ornately with French and English antiques. Among recent drop-ins have been the socially hard-to-get Aldous Huxley and Somerset Maugham. Describing the occasion, Fanny remarked, "Like jerks, we played parlor games." Most unusual of her guests is one Roger Davis, who dropped in on her in 1916, has been around ever since. She dotes on her two children (by Nicky Arnstein), is rated a good painter...
Among the movies to be shown are: "Inside the Flame," showing the production and uses of carbon black; "Embryology of the Chick," made under the supervision of Julian Huxley...
Testifying in a Los Angeles court on behalf of two women (afterwards acquitted) on trial for practicing optometry without a license, lank, brooding British Author Aldous Huxley described the improvement in his vision which had come from exercises they had given him - including staring at Mexican jumping beans and bouncing dice till he could read with out glasses...
...more like a wake than a wakening was Decision's first effort to revive western culture. Its first issue was ghostly and nostalgic, largely composed of sad reminiscences, tortured verse, confused self-questionings. Its most substantial pieces were a disillusioned essay by Aldous Huxley, condemning modern Europe's faith in facts, and an elegiac article on French civilization by Janet Planner...
...year in which established writers like Lewis, Mann, Gather, Millay, Huxley, Caldwell, Faulkner, Werfel, Farrell, O'Hara continued to pour out their hearts and more especially their words. It was the year in which Thomas Wolfe's last work was published. His book seemed less like the new start he had hoped it was than an effort to clear his desk and brain for that new start...