Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...throngs that pressed into the Museum last week came not only to listen to music but to honor David Mannes. A citizens' committee headed by Mayor LaGuardia presented the old man with an elaborate scroll. On it Novelist John Erskine had written: In the twentieth year of your concerts...
...comparative stranger to Atlanta, professes to have known nothing of the antecedents of his palace until the sale was completed. Through similar ignorance his name has been confused lately with that of Gerald O'Hara. the hard-drinking Irish father of Heroine Scarlett O'Hara, in Novelist Margaret Mitchell's panoramic Atlanta novel. Gone With the Wind. Meticulous Author Mitchell laboriously checked reams of old records to make sure none of her names was real, but missed news accounts of Bishop O'Hara's appointment to Savannah last year (TIME...
...tartan kilts Elizabeth and Rosemary Luling, aged 6 and 7, skipped off the Aquitania to visit their mother, Novelist Sylvia Thompson (Mrs. Peter Luling), 34, treated Manhattan newshawks to a precocious discourse on their Teddy bears, "M" and "Teddy": "M is only six years old, but she's a gay lady who ignores little boys. Now Teddy, he's oldish and a sober sides. But he's a liberal and wears a top hat. M does not believe in Santa Claus, and there's logic in what she says always. M appreciates classical beauty...
Originally conceived in a small independent station as an advice hour in which Novelist Fannie Hurst was to counsel unfortunates, the Good Will Court had become a forum in which selected wretches told their troubles to real judges from the lower courts, who then dealt out free advice. A classic case was that of a young married woman who had met a "boyfriend" and made a "mistake." The resulting baby was disclaimed both by the woman's husband and by her acquaintance. Another woman convulsed Good Will Court listeners by wanting to cancel her husband's interest...
Died. Luigi Pirandello, 69, metaphysical playwright, member of the Italian Academy, winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature; of pneumonia; in Rome. A spry, goat-bearded poet, novelist and schoolteacher, he turned to playwriting at 50, achieved fame in 1920 with Six Characters in Search of an Author. Believing life "a very sad piece of buffoonery," he constructed his unrealistic plots to prove that "nothing is true and anything might be." At his death, unpredictable Playwright Pirandello was finishing a volume to be called Memories of My Involuntary Sojourn on Earth...