Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Protoplasm", Professor Parker, Geology Lecture Room...
Week End. Austin Parker, Saturday Evening Post writer, conceived this first offering of Bela Blau, Inc., prosperous and principled new producers (TIME, May 13). Among his characters he included a drunkard who, as played with strange understanding by Hugh O'Connell, is one of the season's great. Inebriates are of course familiar to the stage, but the antics of most of them seem like distorted mummery beside Mr. O'Connell's gentle and imaginative euphoria. As a chubby, post-War wastrel at a houseparty in Barbizon (just outside Paris) he may be found continuing...
...Gilbert Parker, English novelist (The Right of Way, The Weavers, The World for Sale), broke his arm, suffered bruises when an automobile, driven by his wife, who was not injured, overturned near Carmel Highlands, Calif...
...pedestrian, commercially-minded "success-story" magazine, under Editor Crowell had been growing somewhat more sprightly, less reflective of the Alger-like business careers of button kings. Prominent among contributors in the American's November issue are Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Biographer Emil Ludwig, Funnyman George McManus, Authors Ellis Parker Butler, Alice Duer Miller, Will Irwin. In circulation, too, has the American grown. When Editor Crowell first grasped the pencil-scepter, the American claimed a paltry 1,900,000 readers. When his weary fingers relinquished their grip, 350,000 had been added...
...Croskery; l.t., W. W. Mein Jr.; l.g., T. E. Covel; c., Howard Ulfelder; r.g., A. H. Parker, Jr.; r.t., R. A. Dunn; r.e., C. W. Wickersham. Jr.; q.b., W. E. Hutchins; l.h.b., D. R. Weir; r.h.b., Frank Watt; f.b., Bookman Pool...