Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High spot of the evening was the tearful speech of sallow-faced, hollow-eyed Novelist Compton Mackenzie, whose plans for a pro-Edward book, The Windsor Tapestry, were quashed by the Duke himself. "We want him back!" wailed Author Mackenzie. "We don't want to send greetings to France. We want to send them to Fort Belvedere [the Duke's former residence outside London]. The country needs him, for he is the greatest influence for the peace of Europe...
...company plans to spend $100,000 a year, most of which will doubtless be put up by Board Chairman Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. President of Marine Studios, Inc. is W. Douglas Burden, trustee of the American Museum of Natural History; vice president, Count Ilia Tolstoy, grandson of the famed Russian novelist...
Should Women Pay Alimony (Sat. 9:30 p.m., NBC-Red) debated by N. Y. Assemblyman William T. Middleton, Oxford Debater Maurice C. Dreicer, Novelist Fannie Hurst for the affirmative; N. Y. Executive Assistant Secretary of State Doris I. Byrne, N. Y. State Senator Leon Fischel for the negative...
...Hills mansion. But she remains unchanged, continues to charm everybody with her full-blooded Bowery simplicity. As with Author Brinig's other novels, the most remarkable thing about May Flavin is that it is offered as further confirmation of Author Brinig's emergence as a coming major novelist...
From his 24-year exile in Switzerland, famed novelist playwright, pacifist Romain Rolland (Jean-Christophe, Soul Enchanted), 72, returned to his native France to end his days, "a man broken in heart, body and spirit...