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...small knot of Hibbing citizens stood on a Hibbing street corner one day this week and let Hibbing's congressman puke all over them for an hour or so. According to this idol of Hibbing's heart there is nothing good under the sun; certainly there is a mean poverty of good in this creature's heart...
...theaters: Tremont-"A Broken Idol." Majestic-"The Yankee Mandarnity." Park-"The Travelling Salesman...
...Shavings he has collected from various hiding places 14 Shavian pieces, dating as far back as 1885. Latest and largest item in the collection is The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (published separately in 1933). Shaworshipers who have grown old along with their idol will welcome reverently these half-forgotten fragments; to neo-Shavians the book will have a more archeological interest. One lengthy dramatic dialog, originally intended as a part of Back to Methuselah, has never before been published, contains a masterly caricature of Paradoxologist Gilbert Keith Chesterton, under the inspired name of Immenso...
Bela Lugosi was born in Lugos, Hungary, 46 years ago, son of a banker. At 20 he made his debut in Budapest as Romeo, was for ten years a matinee idol. Because of political troubles he left Hungary in 1921, went to Manhattan where he produced, directed and acted in his native tongue. His first English part, in The Red Poppy in 1925, he learned by rote without knowing what the words meant...
...created a kind of constraint which increased with the years. None of my relations ever spoke to me of my books, either to praise or blame-they simply ignored them." But in Europe, and in the world of letters, she was quickly appreciated. The late great Henry James, her idol, became her friend. Jamesians will enjoy the many anecdotes she tells (too lengthy for quotation) of the Master's circuitous crotchets. She met "everybody," seems to have liked them all except George Moore, whose malicious conversation she describes as "a torrent of venom. It was the tone...