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...gained her literary reputation when she published, in 1921, a book of poems called Nets to Catch the Wind. After Black Armour, more poetry, she poured into a mold of prose the fluent and shining metal of her talent for metaphor. Jennifer Lorn was her first novel; The Orphan Angel and The Venetian Glass Nephew its successors. Author Wylie, her publishers announce with a show of pride, spent less than three months in writing her latest novel. This is an admission less damaging than it appears to be; Author Wylie thinks before she writes and is therefore capable of producing...
...When I began to write my story I experienced difficulty in finding material that would interest them. I finally hit upon the following idea-"The old grandmother in a little American house brings a little orphan child a Rumanian doll. As soon as the child takes the gift in its arms the doll comes to life and starts to sing Rumanian songs. The child is fascinated. Then, as if by magic, the doll whisks the child away to distant Rumania...
Speaking of his start in the theatrical industry, he said that when he was 14 years old he received his first job in the old Boston Theatre, when he appeared "the Orphan Scene". Some years later he opened his first theatre on Washington Street with an opera company playing "The Mikado" in a continuous performance. "We nearly killed the actors," he said, but then actors at that time often suffered. Many times they had no car fare or even money with which to buy food...
...Sodality gave its first concert of the season on Friday evening at the Thompson's Island Orphan House, under the auspices of the Phillips. Brooks House Association. Fingal's Cave Mendelssohu Egmont Overture Beethoven
Divorced. Feodor Chaliapin, famed basso; from Yolle Ignatievna Chaliapin whom he married 29 years ago and from whom he has been separated 21 years; in Moscow. Until death, he will pay her $300 monthly. Said a Soviet critic: "It is enough money to maintain an entire Russian orphan asylum...