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...those who have loved the humor of a later Artemas Ward, to be able to think of him as a descendant of the worthy old general. Yet this is unfortunately not the case, for the name of the humorist was Charles Farer Browne, who chose as his nomme do plume. "Artemas Ward", for reasons known only to himself...
Competitors will send poems, signed with a nom de plume, to Mr. J. Abbot, Seretary, 41 Osborne Road, Brookline, Mass., on or before Saturday, April 17, and a separate envelop with the author's own name and address...
Hollis Hall--1 to 3, Corydon and Phyllis; 4, Gin Rickey; 5, Addington Train; 6, Lady Diana Manners; 7, Ferdinand of Coburg; 8, Monsieur Nom de Plume; 17 to 28, Mellie Dunham's Fiddlers; 29, Douglas Brown; 30, Sparafucili; 31, Abious; 32, Charles Lamb...
Which mention of hats reminds one to offer a plume to Philip Guedala, whose historical sketches have been a delightful condiment to the "Harper's" diet as he has rattled realities in the closets of the past and to the bold and true who recently suggested that the publishing of Miss Lowell's worst verse in all and sundry magazines does not help the sale of the "Life". There should be a Society for the Protection of the Reputations of Deceased Authors. Then literary Jerry Crunchers would have harder work, meriting their doctorates...
Clouds. Another vague and vagrant production somehow found lodgement on the slippery stairs of metropolitan endeavor. The lodgement will be temporary. The story tells of a shell shocked male and a sweetly suffering mother. The story goes that the leading actress wrote the play under a nom-de-plume. Which explains...