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...rococo writer, Showman Hecht spreads hokum and verbiage with a lavish hand. Most effective in this swollen vein when he writes about the greasepaint dramatics of Broadway or the alcoholic hilarities of fabulous newshawks, at his middling worst he seems a dim shadow of O. Henry or Edgar Allan Poe. Best story in the book (Snowfall in Childhood) stands out like Shirley Temple on the stage of the Grand Guignol: a simply written reminiscence of first love. Some others...
...through history it is proved time and again that the thoughts of great men are influenced by their physical condition. Although Pope and Swift wrote anti-social satires primarily because they were subnormal or diseased, Sophocles played baseball and wrote some of the world's greatest tragedies. Aeschylus, Poe and Coleridge are only a few of those who underwent rigorous military training, thus it secus as though a sound mind and a sound body must go together to produce great works. Their failures began when Coleridge took to narcotics, when Stephen Foster took to drink, or when Marc Antony took...
...Lindsay showed a precocious gift for words, for sensitive, original observation. He also revealed an emotional and intellectual instability that became more apparent as he grew older. He attended Hiram College, a Campbellite institution, kept detailed diaries in which he developed grandiose poetic projects, studied the Bible and Poe, aspired to be both a major prophet and an independent thinker. Half-starved while attending an art institute in Chicago, he fled to New York, where he peddled his poems on the street at 2? apiece. Lonely, celibate, driven by feverish ambition, he tramped through the country, begging, sometimes reading...
...strength of the song, Coy Poe, a fellow Delt, and Pinky started for Hollywood in an old Ford. A few months later they bought a Lincoln and took a vacation trip. Pinky needed it. He had just finished his first acting--in M. G. M.'s Times Square Lady. He has since made Smart Girl. M. G. M. is going to keep him at acting for some time to come; and when he's out of greasepaint, M. G. M is chaining their hog-caller and actor to a piano...
Especially interesting and fair is the analysis of Mark Twain which is slightly more thorough than the others and is written in an easy, flowing manner. The authors of the volume on Poe have attempted a rather heavy philosophical introduction to the work of their protagonist but have made a sincere effort to treat him fairly--and shield him from the frequent adverse criticism which has so often been hurled at him. We were however, a little disappointed, at the introduction to "William Cullen Bryant" which fails, as all introductions to the works of the Prodigy of Cummington fail...