Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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False Dreams Farewell (by Hugh Stange; Frank Merlin, producer) deals, in the manner of Grand Hotel, with a group of passengers on board the S. S. Atlantia. They include: a dipsomaniac novelist (Millard Mitchell) on his way to Sweden for a prize; an unhappy young doctor (Glenn Anders) with a cancer cure, a neurotic wife (Lora Baxter) and a movie star mistress (Claudia Morgan); a Catholic Bishop headed for Rome with an atheist crony; a Broadway columnist with a Park Avenue vocabulary and an infatuated wife (Frieda Inescort). Also aboard .the Atlantia is its rapacious owner who compels his captain...
Died. Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall, 53, British Egyptologist, discoverer of the tomb of Akhnaton (famed liberal ruler and religion remodeler), novelist, biographer, member of the Tut-Ankh-Amen tomb-opening party in Luxor; after a long illness which his friends said was "mysterious"; in London. Revived were stories of the Pharaoh curse which the superstitious hold responsible for the deaths of 20 members of the Luxor party, and to which Weigall himself was supposed to have given some credence...
Died. Jakob Wassermann, 60, Bavarian-Jewish novelist (The World's Illusion, The Goose Man, Doctor Kerkhoven, Caspar Hauser, Faber, My Life as German and Jew); of angina pectoris; in Altaussee, Austria. First-ranking German writer, he produced novels that were powerful, involved, mystical. He was proscribed and exiled by German Nazidom...
...edifying sight to see the Postmaster General of the United States make a pilgrimage to meet Mr. Walker and to hear that he had eulogized him in Paris. Take this as you like it. I think it was a disgusting spectacle." In Manhattan after a European trip. Novelist Charles Oilman Norris gleefully commented on the absence of U. S. tourists in France: "I am certainly tickled to death to see that France is at last getting it in the neck. Paris has for many years been fattening on Americans visiting there. . . . History will show that when France is in power...
...Idaho pioneer farmers and went to college in Salt Lake City (University of Utah), later taking his Ph. D. at the University of Chicago. During his first year in high school Fisher wrote a novel, had sense enough to burn it. At Chicago one of his instructors, Professor-Novelist Robert Herrick, advised him to eschew literary ambitions, told him he would never "write a novel worth opening." Fisher made better sense when, after boiling the pot by teaching English for several years at Utah and New York Universities, he went back to Idaho to write. His first novel, Totters...