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...said: "Every reader of Lincoln's life will be benefited immeasurably. As to fiction among those I like best are Dickens. Bulwer-Lytton, Stevenson, Scott, Dumas, Hugo and Mark Twain...
Elizabeth The Queen is a sabre-rattling, pompous historical pageant which relates Maxwell Anderson's idea of the love of the Virgin Queen for the Earl of Essex. Author Lytton Strachey's notion to the contrary, Mr. Anderson's Elizabeth (Lynn Fontanne) and Essex (Alfred Lunt) are heroic amorists whose sturdy devotion is thwarted only because they love power more. To indicate her robustness Mrs. Lunt feels called upon to pitch her usually pleasant voice very deep in her throat and to speak her lines as loudly as possible, the effect of which is not unlike...
Readers of Bulwer Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii remember the destruction of ancient Rome's shore resort, by earthquake and eruption of Vesuvius in 63 and 79 A. D. Since then Central and Southern Italy has been shaken by innumerable minor and six major earthquakes. The 1456 quake wiped out 40,000 people in Naples, that of 1626, 70,000 more. In September 1693, 100,000 died in Sicily. Buildings fell and graveyards filled again in 1783. Many an Italian oldster remembers the horror of Messina in 1908. Obscured by War news was the quake of 1915 when...
Suing for Divorce. Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament, onetime wife of the late Edward R. Thomas, New York Morning Telegraph publisher: Colonel Lytton Gray Ament; at Reno, Nev. Introduced to each other at Washington in 1926 by Queen Marie of Rumania, they were married secretly, went to Rumania as guests of the Queen, honeymooned royally, romantically...
...Royal Virgin. The strange affection which persisted between Queen Elizabeth and her favorite, Robert Devereux. Earl of Essex, has been subjected to speculation by innumerable historians and, more recently, by the imaginative Lytton Strachey. Theirs was a relation which would in all probability have taxed the analytic powers of a Shakespeare or a Freud. The latest ambitious analyst is Playwright Harry Wagstaff Gribble, one-time associate of Christopher Morley in Hoboken theatrical enterprises (TIME, March 25, 1929). Playwright Gribble has examined several old dramas on the theme, has evolved his own explanation of its mysteries...