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Blonde, 17-year-old Louise Booth Morley, daughter of Author Christopher Morley and a senior at Manhattan's Hunter College High School, took a three-hour examination given by the League of Nations Association to students of 1,248 high schools, made the best mark, won a trip to Europe...
...Morley & Co., with their "Morley Dishrag Shirt," were assisted by the Sovereign Salesman with the comment: "Interesting! Excellent for the South of France...
Author, Producer, Patriot, As every limelight-lover knows, any great public sensation may be readily capitalized for some personal publicity. Last week mellow Author Christopher Morley got his name in the papers by remarking over the radio: "We have seen only a few days ago, in a crowning humiliation, an example of publicity's cruel power. People can be killed with photographs as surely as with guns...
...earlier book of Author Sugimoto's, A Daughter of the Samurai, has been a best seller (80,000 copies), gave Author Christopher Morley "a secret notion that it will go on for years & years, making friends for itself and for the brave woman who wrote it, and also-this would please her most-friends for Japan." A Daughter of the Nohfu gave some readers last week the secret notion that no matter how Japanesily you slice it, Little Rollo is still baloney...
...magazine Books Abroad conducted a symposium to test the opinion of U. S. critics on likely candidates. Maxim Gorki received five votes, Theodore Dreiser three, Willa Cather, André Gide, Eugene O'Neill and Franz Werfel two, while a number of others, ranging from Havelock Ellis to Christopher Morley, received one apiece. If consistency of purpose, unremitting productivity, a distinguished career, were sole criteria, few critics could object to the choice of Havelock Ellis. Now almost 77, he has been actively writing and editing for 50 years, has practised medicine, translated from Spanish and French, written poetry and fiction...