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They hired for the job Lewis Milestone, a chunky Russian who once worked in a raincoat factory; whose high character and uncompromising ability have made him notable among cinema directors. They hired to prepare the film manuscript Maxwell Anderson (What Price Glory, Saturday's Children) and George Abbott (Broadway, Coquette). These three sat down not to dramatize the book, but to translate it. Flouting formula they retained the spirit of the novel...
...Hugenberg, disturbed and losing his place in his carefully prepared manuscript looked up, seemed not to realize that he was being jeered, and observed with complete political naïveté: "Yes, that was yesterday...
...Waverly Lewis Root in a book published last week called The Truth about Wagner,* Their reference is to Mein Leben, perhaps the most elaborate autobiographical account left by an artist. Authors Hum and Root claim now that much of it is false, base their statements on a manuscript collection made by the late Hon. May Burrell, wife of the Hon. Willoughby Burrell, daughter of a mathematics professor at Trinity College. Dublin. Mrs. Burrell had herself intended to write a Wagner biography, accumulated a vast amount of invaluable literature to that end. But for the 30-odd years since her death...
...Cincinnati, William Houston, 76, laborer, exhibited 6,000 pages of manuscript which he had just completed-a rhymed version of the Bible...
...ineffective debater, he rarely enters the Senate's rough & tumble talks. On the infrequent occasions when he is moved to make a speech, he works it out laboriously with his secretaries in advance, reads it from manuscript in a low sing-song voice like a child reciting a well-learned lesson. A Phipps speech empties the Senate press gallery. A rich socialite rather than a successful politician, he abhors personal publicity, shuns newsmen. His Senate friends: Pennsylvania's Reed, New Hampshire's Moses, Connecticut's Bingham. Democrats of the Senate are below his social notice...