Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week to the late Sculptor August Rodin. Mayor Kendrick, after conferring with his subordinates, announced that, yes, the city would accept from Jules E. Mastbaum, theatre owner and philanthropist, a million-dollar collection of Sculptor Rodin's works and a $400,000 museum to keep them in. Architects Paul Cret and Jacques Greber having completed their plans, there was nothing further to hinder the museum's erection at Parkway & 23rd...
Born. To President Paul von Hindenburg, 79, of Germany; a great-granddaughter. The parents are Herr and Frau Hans Heinrich von Brockhusen. Herr von Brockhusen is the son of the President's daughter...
Interest attached to the Derita play, The Last of the Lowries, when, last week, its author, Paul Green, received a 1927 Pulitzer Prize for his longer work, In Abraham's Bosom. But it was to Mr. Sampson by Charles Lee and The Delta Wife by Walter McClellan, to The Immortal Beloved by Martia Leonard, and The Fool's Errand by Eulalie Spence, that prizes of $200 were given for intrinsic dramatic merit...
...Byrne has accomplished the seemingly impossible--he has entered into the spirit of the times and of Saul, later to become St. Paul, with an extraordinary depth and keenness of penetration; he has vivified his subject without vulgarizing it. Indeed not the least remarkable thing about the book is the gallery of living portraits which the author paints; paints with such clearness, diversity and power that they seem actual breathing, human beings. In "Brother Saul," he has added to the charming lightness of touch and haunting melody of his style a certain strength, a subtle power that throws a brilliant...
...past and contemporary was admirable, his capacity for facile applause is much less so. The reader suspects that he had so many tastes that at bottom he had none at all. The two places where he makes an attempt at any kind of distinguishing, in preferring Esther Shephard's "Paul Bunyan" to James Stephens', and in protesting against Dreiser's fearful style, are too obvious to argue any great subtlety. Elsewhere he is prone to sit back, fold his hands comfortably over his stomach and say: "Great, absolutely great! Do go on!" by the hour together. He does not like...