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MONKS ARE MONKS-George Jean Nathan-Knopf ($2.50). Author Nathan's latest book is no novel. In it a critic, a poet, a playwright, a fictioneer and "two geniuses" [Mencken & Nathan in false whiskers] successfully repulse the advances of one Lorinda Hope who "was not a bad young woman; it was just that she had an apartment of her own." The story is completely overshadowed by their maneuvers. Their talk embraces: incompetency of U. S. criticism, monogamy v. polygamy, decline of detective stories, postures of college radicals, difficulty of censoring silent cinema, cosmopolitan U. S. interior decoration, Manhattan...
...Tribune}. editor of Johnson Features, Inc., literary-critic of Arts & Decorations, editor of The Bookman. Last week the latest Rascoe position was announced-associate editor of Plain Talk, red-covered monthly (circulation 25,700) edited by Geoffrey Dell ("G. D.") Eaton in somewhat the manner of Henry Louis Mencken's kraut-liveried American Mercury (circulation...
...them guiltless. California has not reconsidered their case, which is now before Governor C. C. Young for a pardon. To propagandize in their favor a national "Mooney-Billings Committee" has been formed. Among its members are: Harry Elmer Barnes, Clarence Darrow, John Dewey, Glenn Frank, Alexander Meiklejohn, H. L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise...
Already I am obligated by able assistance so graciously given by such fine folk as Mencken, Theodore Dreiser, Fannie Hurst, Frank O'Brien - Editor of New York Sun−Joseph and Elinor Pulitzer. All correspondence will be promptly answered if addressed to George FitzPatrick, Private Box 939 GG., G. P. O., Sydney, Australia...
What the Jury Was Told. It was related, by consent of both parties, that Mrs. Dennett had mailed the pamphlet. The question was on its obscenity. The prosecutor "explained" the case 'to the jury. He read excerpts from Havelock Ellis and Henry Louis Mencken recommending the pamphlet, but later Judge Barrows instructed the jury: "I warn you against giving these the credence of testimony." Then Prosecutor Wilkinson, a fine, bluff man, read the pamphlet aloud while the courtroom, crowded with spectators, listened breathlessly...