Word: novel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Time, the Comedian. Frederick and Fanny Hatton wrote a novel in which Lew Cody, Mae Busch and Creighton Hale have been blended with thoughtful, valuable effect. It is about a wife who deserts a husband, is in turn deserted by a lover, and occupies herself at the conclusion by protecting her daughter from the latter. Miss Busch is better than four out of five who attain stardom. For once she has a chance and a director. This latter, curious to relate, is Robert Z. Leonard, whilom husband of Mae Murray and directorially responsible for many of that lady...
...reckoned without his host. The Antichrist of Baltimore snatched it up with zest, and in half as many words as his oppouent proceeded to score almost twice the number of points, of which the following is a fair sample: "You hint that I'd have acclaimed Arnold Bennett's novel "Riceyman Steps', if the author had been an American! I leave this insinuation to a candid world--and you to the mercy...
Among the other interesting columns in your magazine, to which I look forward with eagerness every week, is that devoted to football, as your novel chronicling of the exploits of various teams has a particular charm...
...comparative obscurity, but its complete realism might tag it as written yesterday. Haldane Macfall wrote of Negro life in all its comic fullness, yet refused to write the regulation Negro comic story. Saith Carl Van Vechten, according to the blurb: "The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer is probably the best novel yet written about the Negro." And Critic Van Vechten is not far wrong, for Haldane Macfall can write. He has an extraordinarily observant eye and an equally effective pen. He has the turn of the epigrammatist, but makes no ostentatious display of it. He has a mental balance that...
Cosmo Hamilton author and boiler of literary pots has recently tried an original experiment. Realizing that the usual novel, or at least his usual novel could be compressed into a radio speech he has written and delivered such a chef d'oeuvre to the silent spaces. In fifteen minutes he has been able to real all of his novel, "Sons of Mothers", to the literary lethargists of the modern world, he radio public. Thus he has proven to his own satisfaction that such an abbreviated novel can be written...