Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Jessie George Conrad, 64, relict of Novelist Joseph Conrad; in London...
...four Grosz drawings and a hand-colored lithograph were presented to a very select public by svelte Publisher Caresse Crosby's Black Sun Press in an edition of 280 numbered copies, printed on hand-moulded paper, bound in a loose box, introduced by a little essay by myopic Novelist John Dos Passos, and priced at $50. Among the best drawings...
...Novelist Gouverneur Morris (The Man Who Played God) and his wife Ruth appeared in the Los Angeles District Attorney's office when the case of their jobless friend Reid Russell's suicide was re-opened at the request of the deceased's mother. Under questioning, Mrs. Morris confessed that, on the advice of oldtime Cinemactress Lila Lee, she had burned a suicide note left by Reid. Still unexplained were such questions as: why Russell's body lay unfound in the Morris' lawn swing for twelve hours; why no bullet was found; whether the shot that...
...LIFE OF GEORGE MOORE-Joseph Hone-Macmillan ($3). First full-length biography of the Irish novelist, interesting for its disclosure of more paradoxes in George Moore's own life than he himself invented. Waging a bitter, successful fight against the English censorship on Zola's books, he discredited a similar campaign on behalf of Joyce and D. H. Lawrence. A reckless spender in the Paris days of the Confessions of a Young Man he carefully saved his own earnings while pretending to be at the gates of the poorhouse, left an estate of ?68,000 which he deposited...
...Lady (RKO) is a resounding contribution to the Five Little Peppers school of cinema, showing what happens when a suburban high-school girl (Anne Shirley) undertakes to manage the sex life of her widowed father (Herbert Marshall). Convinced that he is in love with a lady novelist (Margot Grahame), she tries to wreck his romance with a schoolteacher (Gertrude Michael), does not quite succeed...