Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WOMAN AND THE SEA?Concha Espina?Rae D. Henkle ($2.50). Old-fashioned psychological melodrama by a Spanish woman novelist well thought of in her native country...
...ABOUT?Archibald Marshall?Button ($3.50). Random reminiscences of Punch's gentlest contributor, England's quietest living novelist...
...vote if it would not have been construed as a vote of no-confidence in Dr. Tugwell's patron, Franklin D. Roosevelt. But Senatorial motives mattered little to Rexford Guy Tugwell. In his office after the confirmation, he beamingly received congratulations and that night one of his friends, Novelist Sinclair Lewis, gave a party to celebrate the victory. Then the handsome, happy professor entrained for the West, to attend a farmers' picnic at Brookings, S. Dak., to make a ten-day inspection tour of agricultural experiment stations and grasshopper control projects. But though he gaily turned his back...
Most notable were Director Fritz Lang (M, Metropolis), on his way to Hollywood for the second time; Director Howard Estabrook, who had been in England making notes for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's forthcoming David Copper field; Novelist Hugh Walpole who, as a vice president of the Dickens Society, had signed with MGM's Associate Producer David Selznick to help keep the Dickens novel from "reeking of America." To ship newsmen Producer Selznick functioned as advance agent for an even more distinguished Hollywood prospect: Britain's onetime Prime Minister David Lloyd George.* Producer Selznick. back from a month abroad with...
...Douglas Stuart Ltd., which employs 400 clerks in its entirely legal offices at Stuart House, Shaftesbury Avenue, London. Douglas Stuart, whose motto is "Duggie Never Owes" is not a person but a syndicate. Busiest member of the syndicate is breezy, dapper, dark-haired Sidney Freeman, who once worked with Novelist Edgar Wallace on a South African newspaper, and who would "rather trust an English bricklayer than a foreign nobleman," in the matter of bets. For the last three years. Bookmaker Freeman has been coming to the U. S. to buy up Irish Hospital tickets, leaving his associates to handle...