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...some detail, the editor explained how "Tough Luck" was acquired. It had been sold to Liberty, he said, through one T. Everett Harre, literary agent and "ghost writer," for $750.* For proof he displayed the original manuscript which bore the signature of Miss Oelrichs on its first and last pages. "Harré paid Miss Oelrichs for the article, giving her his personal check for $200," Mr. Annenberg said. "It assigns for that amount all rights in the article." Sighed Mr. Harre: "It's a tough business, this ghost-writing...
...American Airways back from Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana (TIME, Sept. 30) to the U. S., by way of Central America. Later this month, the Lindberghs intend to explore by air Mayan ruins among Yucatan forests. In the office of Colonel Lindbergh's publisher* last week was the manuscript of his new book, We Fly, in which he sets down his attitude toward public idolization, the future of flying, military aviation...
Beyond these four lectures, Professor Garrod has made no plans. The exact dates and subjects of the entire series will be announced later, when he has had an opportunity to adjust himself to his new surroundings, and perhaps regain his lost manuscript...
...with publication in Vanity Fair, monthly smartchart, of a savage burlesque on Frances Newman's novel, The Hard-boiled Virgin, Death came to Authoress Newman. Vanity Fair was embarrassed. Last week came another such occurrence, less embarrassing, no less unhappy. Several months ago a young aviatrix submitted a manuscript to Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis's The Country Gentleman. It was called "My Life For Aviation." Editor Philip Sheridan Rose accepted the story, changed its title to ''How I Learned to Fly," ordered it to be inserted in the September issue. The name of the authoress...
...pearls depends less on plot and more on dialog than most plays of its type. It is satirical, sentimental, witty. It set, in its season, a new fashion in drawing-room drama. It is as effective as a talking picture as it was on the legitimate stage. Although the manuscript has been followed so closely that if you look sharp you can catch in the picture the momentary pauses that marked the play's division into acts, it is not a photograph of a play. It is a reproduction in which dramatic values have been replaced by cinematic values...