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...displays the versatility characteristic of bright Jews, interested as much in music as in romance? languages he is author of numerous Haldeman-Julius "Little Blue Books" on music and musicians; translator from the Spanish, Portuguese, Yiddish; authority on Spanish-American literature; biographer of such heterogeneous characters as Havelock Ellis, Mencken, Nathan, and now the Topsy-Turvy Twins...
More than 500 authors and publicists. Last fortnight the Democrats announced an Authors' Committee of 149 names, including Sherwood Anderson, H. L. Mencken, Rupert Hughes, Anita Loos, John Erskine, Finley Peter Dunne, George S. Kaufman, Laurence Stallings, Deems Taylor, etc., etc. (TIME, Sept. 24). The G. O. P. list was by far the bestseller. It included Zane Grey, Harold Bell Wright, Kathleen Norris, Edward W. Bok, Bruce Barton, Earl Derr Biggers, Will Durant, Albert W. Atwood, Robert W. Chambers, Booth Tarkington, Thomas L. Masson, Hermann Hagedorn, Vernon Kellogg, Daniel Frohman, Don Marquis. The last, an oldtime Democrat, author...
Finley Peter Dunne, John Erskine, Montague Glass, Owen Johnson, Rupert Hughes, Anita Loos, Anne Nichols, Channing Pollock, Sherwood Anderson, H. L. Mencken−and 149 other novelists, poets, composers, playwrights, publicists−as an Author's Committee...
...Wright had been suspected of being himself, and also William Lyon Phelps, John Galsworthy, Dr. Joseph Collins, Pola Negri, George Jean Nathan, H. L. Mencken, "Ma" Ferguson, Carl Van Doren, Robert Bridges...
This and much more Adman Bruce Barton (The "Nobody Knows" Series) said in an interview printed last week by the New York Telegram. Theoretically, he was answering a similar interview with Publisher H. L. Mencken, whom he good-naturedly called "an actor . . . bad influence on young people ... a grand court jester ... a sad voice singing 'Sweet Adeline' in the speakeasies." Pungent paragraphs from Mr. Barton's interview follow...