Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Negroes to visit white schools and vice versa is to tempt them. Novelist Carl Van Vechten (The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven, Peter Whiffle) has done just that with a scheme involving Yale and Fisk Universities...
Contemplating the fantastic midwar vacation boom in Miami, asp-tongued Novelist Philip Wylie (Generation of Vipers) last week reported to the New Republic...
Died. Israel Joshua Singer, 50, bald, Polish-born Yiddish novelist (The Brothers Ashkenazi), since 1923 a member of the editorial staff of Manhattan's Jewish Daily Forward; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...have made the novel a natural screen romance. As Jane, Joan Fontaine is too often merely tight-lipped and pale-perhaps because Orson Welles so seldom gives her reason to be anything else. His Rochester is fairly amusing as a period-act; but an act is not acting and Novelist Bronte's Rochester is not meant to be amusing. For Cinemactor Welles to play Rochester as a man of ham, not of heart, wrenches the whole mood of Jane Eyre. But in the opening reels, little Peggy Ann Garner (as the child Jane), brilliantly abetted by Henry Daniell...
...gloom, almost in despair, Novelist Louis Bromfield wrote last summer from his 1,500-acre farm near Mansfield, Ohio, "Though ours is the richest agricultural nation, our people are not going to have enough food. If it were possible, I would rather not think about next February." Last week Louis Bromfield survived the first week in "famine February" by eating well. So did the U.S. And War Food Administrator Marvin Jones, pooh-poohing Bromfield's prophecies, cheerfully boasted of surplus potatoes, eggs and canned goods...