Word: lardner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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ROUND UP-Ring W. Lardner-Scribner...
...adopted two Chinese boys, one of whom became his personal ringside and diamondside reporter. Many a drawing made in Great Neck he signed: "Tad, Moscow" or "Tad, Shanghai." His home stood between those of two of his numberless friends, Fisticuffer James J. Corbett, retired, and Funnyman Ring W. Lardner...
...Literary Guild has selected as its choice for April "Round Up" by Ring W. Lardner. The book will be published by Charles Scribner's Sons on April 5. "Round Up" is the only collection of short stories ever presented by the Guild and it is the first by Mr. Lardner in three years...
ELMER THE GREAT?Ring Lardner's ball-playing dope, perfectly impersonated by Walter Huston (TIME...
That is the story of Elmer Kane in its essentials; it is also the story of Jack Keefe, the hero of Ring Lardner's You Know Me, Al. Somehow Ring Lardner has been able to put Jack Keefe, himself in person, onto the stage, and Walter Huston plays the part so that you forget it is one. George M. Cohan produced the play and Cohan plays have plots; therefore you will find, muffling the funny and pathetic character of "Hurry" Kane, a ridiculous jumble about an attempted Black Sox deal which is very nearly sufficient to spoil the play...