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...gift includes five portfolios of original drawings, portraits and projects; five scrapbooks of clippings, programs, and photographs; many manuscript notes; and costume sketches...
Amazed by the fact that Widener Library was able to show him the original manuscript of his first play, Sir Cedric Hardwieke, the majestic Canon of the current hit "Shadow and Substance," was enthusiastic about the state of dramatics at Harvard and the reception which he received at his talk here yesterday, sponsored by the Dramatic Club...
...Fifth Column they can get a good idea. This melodrama of Loyalist counterespionage in Madrid was written last year when Hemingway was a war correspondent in Spain. He wrote it in Madrid's Hotel Florida, between visits to the front 1,500 yards away, hiding the manuscript under his mattress when he was away. In his introduction, Hemingway explains why the play has not been produced: one producer died as he was casting it, another got into financial difficulties...
...drew from Scripture the theme of many a bestseller ( The Deemster, The Bondman, The Eternal City, etc.). During his lifetime (1853-1931), Author Caine was known to be working on a life of Christ. Upon his death, his executors discovered no less than 3,000,000 words of manuscript, revisions and notes, based upon five trips he made to Palestine, 1,000 volumes of source materials he had read during 39 years. Hall Caine's Life of Christ in its final draft (650,000 words, 1,310 pages) was published this week.* Hall Caine was not much impressed...
While the resolutions of the convention were being read, came a dramatic pause. The resolutions chairman yielded his manuscript to burly, bull-voiced Frank McHale, original McNutt-for-President man, now Indiana's National Democratic Committeeman. Sonorously Mr. McHale intoned: "Paul V. McNutt has never failed his community, his State or his country. With him as the nominee for President of the United States our party can proceed with full consciousness that every promise will be kept, that each platform declaration will be respected and that the best interests of the people will be served. Therefore, we, the Democratic...