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Without apparent effort, S. N. Behrman has created the most amusing comedy that has come to Boston in many years. He hasn't satirized the life of an artist, nor has he burlesqued it. Yet without relying on low comedy or the pseudo-intellectual repartee of Noel Coward, which evokes...
This sort of thing is unfair to the unsuspecting reader and viciously unfair to the author, who, I suspect, would prefer that his works were never read if they must first be emended by some virtuous Headmaster Bluenose bent on removing all traces of those ugly old Facts of Life...
Caslon Roanoke, author of austere New England novels, goes to California for a vacation. A friend and admirer has taken a bungalow for him in the exotic colony of Alta Vista, introduces him to all of Alta Vista's queer characters. Before any of them can say "Roanoke," Caslon...
In 1890, Greek-Irish-American Lafcadio Hearn went to Japan to promote trans-Pacific travel for the Canadian Pacific Railroad. He was fascinated by the country and the life, took a Japanese wife, Setsuko Koizumi, daughter of a Samurai. So that he could more easily become a Japanese citizen, he...
Bahamas to the blue depths off Cuba's north coast. One of these sighted Fisher man Hemingway's hook-spitted mackerel, struck, and the battle was on. "He jumped," the stout scrivener said, "like in the Apocalypse!" Sixty-five minutes later the gleamy, purple-backed fish was gaffed...