Word: novel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rich Miss Radclyffe Hall, author of the suppressed Lesbian novel, The Well of Loneliness (TIME, Dec. 31), contributed $5,000 to the fund, last week, after selling for that sum to the Glasgow Art Gallery a portrait of the late Mrs. George Batten by John Singer Sargent. It had been bequeathed to her by Mrs. Batten...
Merry Andrew. Druggists are notoriously busy and peculiar characters. So fantastic and interesting are their occupations, that, when they attempt to leave their tinted shelves, druggists find themselves drawn back, like outworn reporters, to the charms of their conversational counters. Investigating this novel theme, Lewis Beach (The Goose Hangs High) last week delivered to a giggling audience his history of the successive industry, retirement, and return, not to the grindstone but to the happy pharmacy of one Andrew Aiken, impersonated by plump Walter Connolly, placidly absurd but only mildly funny...
...Miss Garbo and John Gilbert are among the most conspicuous romanticists of this epoch. Each knows how to invest emotions with the glamor dear to reveries although not found in life. Director Clarence Brown has made the most of tremendous box-office possibilities by sticking closely to the original novel. Best shot: Greta Garbo driving an Hispano-Suiza...
...lost to Athanase Vagliano and his colleagues of the famed "Greek Syndicate" at Cannes or at Deauville, according to one's means. The Syndicate's game was and is baccarat. One season they lost three millions of francs to M. André Citroen, the "Henry Ford of France." In the novel Enemies of Women famed Spaniard Vincente Blasco Ibánez portrayed Athanase Vagliano, under another name, as the evil genius of the Riviera. As a matter of fact the heaviest losers to the Syndicate do seem to have been women. "Once," Vincente Blasco Ibánez has said, "I saw Vagliano...
...Significance. Flashing with occasional interludes of traditional Vikings at sea, these five novels chronicle mostly the Vikings on land with their women and priests, their passions and prickly consciences. Rich in detail of 14th century manners and morals, the books are in the best tradition of magnificent historical novel, but in their universality they reflect the sum of human drama...