Word: oppenheims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dollar Dreadfuls. Still another class of readers will rejoice over a new departure of Little Brown & Co. Shorter than a novel; longer than a short-story; cost, a dollar the volume, are the E. Phillips Oppenheim "pocket thrillers." The stories are not new. England has known them in her magazines or as "shilling shockers". The Terrible Hobby of Sir Joseph Londe, Bart.; The Adventures of Mr. Joseph P. Cray; Madame and Her Twelve Virgins; The Channay Syndicate. Trash as good as Mr. Op- penheim's has its place in the world...
Professor William Lyon Phelps, nationally beloved teacher at Yale University: "I commented last week in Scribner's on the fact that three recent novels have manicure girls as their heroines (Mantrap by Sinclair Lewis, Prodigals of Monte Carlo by E. Phillips Oppenheim, Jones in Paris by Ward Muir). Of manicuring I wrote...
...cause your palate much excitement, but as some one has said, they satisfy. Passing the newsstand, if your appetite for fiction is not to be trifled with by a mere magazine, do you pore over cryptic titles, flashy jackets, alluring blurbs? Hardly ever. Briskly, confidently, you seize an Oppenheim or a Dell, a Harry Leon Wilson, Sabatini, Irvin Cobb, Wallace Irwin, Arthur Train?not ham and eggs but just as reliable. A lot of fiction writers remain standard commodities whether you carry them out of the Gopher (Wyo.) Elite Drug Store or Brentano...
...publisher's spring lists contain many a standard commodity. Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim's vast museum now includes The Golden Beast (Little, Brown). Miss Ethel M. Dell submits A Man Under Authority (Putnam). Harvey O'Higgins has a successor to Julie Cane in Clara Barron (Harpers). Irvin Cobb's new tales, more pensive than usual, are all On an Island That Cost $24 (Doran). Katharine Haviland Taylor is out again, with Stanley Johns' Wife (Doran), and Albert Payson Terhune with Treasure (Harpers...
...founder and Vice President of the famed department store, Saks & Co.; at Mt. Sinai Hospital, Manhattan, of septic poisoning. In leading Manhattan dailies he was publicly mourned in paid advertisements by rival merchants- Abraham & Straus, Stern Bros., Lord & Taylor, James McCreery & Co., Franklin Simon & Co., Gim- bel Bros., Oppenheim-Collins...