Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. John Lloyd Shine. 76, English actor, producer; friend of Shaw, Barrie, King Edward VII, Sir Henry Dickens (barrister son of Novelist Dickens); of Bright's disease, in Manhattan. Once he gave half a bob (12?) to a street urchin named Charles Chaplin. He played approximately 2,000 times in Boucicault's The Shaughraun...
...used the Titanic's passenger list as a basis for their cast, results would have been better. Unfortunately the tremendous and simple design of the accident to the boat has been traced through a set of theatrical stencils, conventionally acted. There are two drunkards, a priest, a novelist, a pair of honeymooners, a valet. None of them are just right. Good shots have been taken of men killed by officers while they struggle to get into the lifeboats, of hysterical women waiting their turn, of the water rising on the floor of the saloon. The rest...
...Author. Thomas Mann, 55, is reputed Germany's most considerable liv ing novelist. In 1929 he won the Nobel Prize. He lives with his wife, six chil dren and Bashan in a villa on the outskirts of Munich. Other books: The Magic Mountain, Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice, Royal Highness, Children and Fools, Early Sorrow...
...bachelor writer, through whose disillusioned eyes you see unfolded the story of Edward Drimeld and the lovely Rosie. When Edward Drimeld died his late-won position as Grand Old Man of English Letters was secure. His shrewd second wife wanted an official, respectably-mum-mifying biography, asked the popular novelist Alroy Rear to write it. But Ashenden was one of the few who knew anything about Driffield's early life. When Kear tried to pump him, Ashenden had reason to tell only a little of what he knew. The rest he tells to the reader...
...Author. William Somerset Maugham (pronounced "mawm"), 56, playwright, novelist, essayist, studied to be a doctor, knows how to articulate a skeleton, but prefers to do his dissecting in books. Of medium size and corpulence, with heavy, mustached face, he lives in Cap Ferrat, France, travels widely, stutters, has effeminate men friends. Though he has written some popular books and plays, his cynicism has kept the great public from crowning him a favorite. Says he cynically: "I have never called myself cynical. . . . I've always thought myself truthful." Author Maugham has written: The Trembling oj a Leaf, Of Human Bondage...