Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Union this evening at 7.15, Mr. Edward Townsend, author of "Chimmie Fadden," "A Daughter of the Tenements," "The Sergeant," etc., will read a number of selections from his own works. Mr. Townsend is a prominent journalist, author and playwright of New York City, and is especially well known for his studies of Bowery life and dialect. He will read the following selections...
Great as M. Hugues Le Roux's successes have been as a journalist, novelist, sociologist and dramatist, it is as a conversationalist and orator that he is particularly noted in France. His language is full of poetry and color, and his diction is extremely clear. He has already spoken in all the capitals of Europe with a success which will undoubtedly be equalled in the United States...
Professor de Sumichrast is at present in England, and expects to spend the spring in France. He is engaged, among other things, in translating the works of Theophile Gautier, a well known French author, critic and journalist, who died in 1872. Professor de Sumichrast expects to finish the translation before returning to this country...
...Hugues LeRoux, who is to deliver the Cercle Francais lectures this winter, is an eminent journalist and lecturer, well-known in the literary circ es of Paris. He was born in Havre in 1860. He has devoted himself chiefly to journalism and the writing of light novels, contributing frequently to the "Temps" and "Journal." Among the books M. LeRoux has written may be mentioned the following: 'L'Enfer Parisien," "La Russie Souterraine," 'L'Attentat Sloughine," "Un de Nous," "Mederic et Lisee," "Chez les Filles," "L' Amour Infirme." Last year M. LeRoux made a dari g exploration through Abyssinia...
...Brieux, who started as a journalist in a small country town, has seen much of life. "Menage d'Artistes," "Blanchette," and "Les Trois Filles de M. Dupont" are works that show a keen desire for fighting the evils with which the family life of our society is afflicted. The subjects he deals with are as modern and as true to life as the news we read in the daily papers; they are comedies as well as moral plays. He is another who always works out his plots with the simplest solutions...