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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest book Fannie Hurst undertakes a pretentious task and fails somewhat of doing it justice. "A President is Born", is an effort to portray the early life and development of a man who was to become President of the United States. David Schuyler, the character in question, is followed from birth to early manhood, and occasion is found to indicate how his ability and qualifications for his later position in life worked themselves out, giving a forecast of the line of his subsequent achievements. To overcome the difficulty of interpreting the early life of her hero in the light...
Senator Hefflin's latest and most vigorour lunge at the Catholic windmill will probably no more add to the gayety of the nation, than it will disrupt the minority party. For the Democrats, with the exception of some Senators, mostly southern, who remained away from the caucus yesterday, repudiated the Alabaman by unanimous support of his opponent Robinson. And if the fathers of this country are turning in their graves because a senator in Congress questioned the right of a man to be president because of religious belief, they may reflect that Hefflin is no typical senator, even if such...
Another Hydra head has popped up to threaten serenity in Reading Period hibernation. "Sunshine starvation" is the latest excuse to while away long hours over seductive literature on "coral islands", "bright jewels of the West Indies",--average temperature 60 to 70 degrees. For science has decreed that sunshine like food is pernicious by its absence. Flowers fade and wither away, children get rickety, and the Harvard Club of Boston installs machinery to feed its sunshine-hungry members. Not of least interest is the biological study which accompanied this announcement. The photographer has caught all the intimate charm which must surround...
...Laugh. The stately figure of Fannie Hurst strode in among last week's horde of notables with plays for sale. Miss Hurst's play was concerned with Jewish matters, as was her great short story Humoresque, later acted by Laurette Taylor. The latest, inferior to Humoresque, is moderately well performed by Edna Hibbard. She marries a crook, reforms him. Her simple Jewish parents are much harassed by wealthy surroundings thrust upon them by an unexpectedly prosperous son who sells antiques...
Commenting on his latest book "The Sea Devil." Lowell Thomas said that he could throw several interesting sidelights on the hero, Count Luckner...