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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democrat Cermak had the firm if not ardent support of such famed Chicagoans as William Ruggles Dawes, Silas Hardy Strawn, Julius Rosenwald and Frank Jo seph Loesch. He kept his campaign on a nice, colorless plane. He harped on police reform, aid to the jobless, reduced taxes. But voters took his promises at a discount because his own record was that of a routine politician who had risen to the top of his party. When Thompson assailed him as "that pushcart peddler," he promptly organized a parade of pushcart peddlers who vowed to vote for him. Plump and precise, bespectacled...
...female Fellows. Average grant: $2,500. To China, Europe and Latin America they will go, some of them perhaps to try to emulate Poet Stephen Vincent Benet, who wrote John Brown's Body during his year abroad. Among the fellows: Author Maurice Hindus (Humanity Uprooted), Playwright-Director Em Jo Basshe (Earth), Author Walter Stanley Campbell (pseudonym Stanley Vestal), Poets Hart Crane and Genevieve Taggard, Painters Marsden Hartley and Ione Robinson, Sculptor Harold Cash (his second grant), Penologist Joseph Fulling Fishman, Composer Henry Dixon Cowell, Architect Cecil Clair Briggs,* Economist Herbert Heaton, Director William Edward Zeuch of Commonwealth College (Mena...
...drinking of a detested pitcher of porter, so stirring her defense of a browbeaten sister, so moving her portrayal of an invalid who passionately wished but mortally feared to be a wife, that first night spectators yelled "Bravo!" as the final curtain fell.* The supporting cast is capable: Jo Mielziner has mounted the piece as picturesquely as a John Leech drawing. A small Cocker spaniel as Flush behaves admirably...
...pleasant experience and Author Hecht's creature seems at first a repulsive caricature. But the caricature grows into a portrait, the creature into a personality who is as interesting as he is unpleasant. Many an author would give his eyeteeth to be able to approximate the Hechticvitality. Jo Boshere (real name: Abe Nussbaum) made a fortune on the stock exchange, then turned his attention to publishing. But his real hobby was women. He was married to a woman "whom he kept concealed on ocean liners," with whom he enjoyed sporadic interludes but to whom he was in no sense...
...Author. Ben Hecht writes with violence but without bad temper. Consequently his forceful delineations of character carry weight even when they are brutally offensive. Jo Boshere will leave few readers without some fellow-feeling. Hecht's dialog is nearer real life than most authors dare go. Ben Hecht was a small, dark, demoniac member of the Chicago literary circle that gave the U. S. such figures as Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg. Big-eyed, thick-lipped, baldish, he looks Mediterranean rather than Jewish. With Charles MacArthur (husband of Actress Helen Hayes) he wrote the Broadway smash...