Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sinners), who sets great store by his heroine's virginity, strives to make it appear that she is just a curious, impetuous, innocent little soul who needs freedom, not the repression of her dour aunt's household. For two acts the virgin is enamored of a wayward novelist. Her fiance had hoped that the novelist would shock and all but seduce the little girl, scare her into his secure arms. There are a few hitches to the scheme, but the plan ultimately works. Mr. Harris' unwholesome moral seems to be that it really made no difference with...
First U. S. Novelist...
There are signs that the critical market, more variable than the stock exchange, is beginning to raise James Fenimore Cooper, first great U. S. novelist, from the slump into which an unsympathetic generation let him slide. This biography, the first full length one in 50 years, is one of the signs...
...Andreyev (He Who Gets Slapped, The Waltz of the Dogs). First produced by the Moscow Art Theatre in 1914, it tells the very abstruse story of a scientist (Leo Bulgakov, longtime member of the Moscow Art Theatre) who is in love with the wife (Mrs. Leo Bulgakov) of a novelist (Bruce Elmore...
...profound cerebrations will unseat his reason, that he has ''a little devil in his mind." A prime symptom: His astounding fondness for a caged orangutan which he subjects to a minute character-analysis. After his pet orangutan dies and Mr. Bulgakov pays a visit to the novelist's wife, up pops the devil. The scientist feigns madness (a circumstance which will extenuate his crime), kills the lady's husband with a very heavy ash tray. Then follows Mr. Bulgakov's big scene, with a stage entirely to himself. It turns out that he really...