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...choice items of a particular writer. One of these is the selection from the Rupert Brooke collection of R. W. Baker, Jr. '34, which includes a first edition of the war poet's first volume of verse, printed in 1911, original proof sheets of the same book, an autograph manuscript of one of the sonnets and Brooke's copy of a first edition of Thomas Hardy's "Dynasts." First editions of Kipling's "Jungle Books" and of Thomas Hardy's "Dynasts". First editions of Kipling's "Jungle Books" and of O'Henry's "The Four Million" and "Heart...
Screen writers are much less often publicized than playwrights. Kubec Glasmon and John Bright have been sufficiently able, original and influential to make themselves noteworthy. They arrived in Hollywood less than a year ago with the unfinished manuscript for The Public Enemy, then called Blood & Beer, which they had already tried to sell to Manhattan theatrical producers. Glasmon, a onetime druggist who says he used to own stores in Chicago, is short, soft-voiced, stocky. He has a wide knowledge of Chicago's underworld, admits that "Glasmon" is a nom-de-plumc, saves newspaper clippings of criminal happenings, like...
...Stebbins, meticulously neat and smartly dressed, enjoys recalling his famed success. His grey eyes sparkled and his urbanity was undisturbed last week when he admitted that Laurence Rivers, Inc. had just closed a new play on the road, would have no further production plans until he found another worthy manuscript. Producer Stebbins will not return to being Broker Stebbins. His special partnership in deCoppet & Doremus is largely a matter of capital invested there. His main interest will still be Broadway, his hobby music...
...Democratic headquarters could not give them more information. Still curious, O'Brien decided to have the Hoover past researched and publish a book thereon. He employed Hamill to travel abroad, gather material. As Hamill was completing this assignment, a quarrel with O'Brien developed. Hamill took his manuscript to a notorious Samuel Roth who, under the name of William Faro Inc., specialized in smutty publications. Last September William Faro Inc. issued a thick blue volume entitled "The Strange Career of Mr. Hoover Under Two Flags" by John Hamill ($3.75). In three months the book has sold far & wide...
When the Harvard Dramatic Club gives its tenth annual Christmas Miracle play tomorrow, it will present in the Umbrian Play a work never before produced in modern times, and only recently translated from its eleventh century manuscript by D. F. Robertson '25. The cast, which has just been picked by Edward Massey '15, will give two performances in the Germanic Museum, at 5 and 9 o'clock, and if enough demand warrants, a third performance at 8 o'clock. The play will also be broadcast over Station WBZ at o'clock, in the first broadcast ever attempted of this sort...