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...hard bargain, insists on having her own way. She is the daughter (real name, Suzanne) of Paul Charpentier, editor of the Journal dee Voyage. French director Abel Gance first spotted her and called her Annabella because, in common with most literate Frenchmen, he admires "Annabel Lee," Edgar Allen Poe's poem to his dead wife. René Clair brought her fame in Le Million. Night after the first Paris showing, she signed a contract with Osso Films. Last year Clair called her back for July 14. He gets along much better with amiable, unambitious Pola Illery, the Rumanian...
...circulation up to 19,000-largest of any daily in the world -and Ben Day could boast that New Yorkers read the Sun by day, studied the moon by night. Nine years later the Sun fostered another fable-the balloon hoax. It was Edgar Allan Poe's account of a supposed airship flight from England to South Carolina. The hoax lasted for only a day, the Sun itself explaining that the "astounding intelligence" was erroneous...
Other books: Israfel: The Life & Times of Edgar Allan Poe, Wampum & Old Gold, Toward the Flame, New Legends, The Blindman...
Died. Samuel Johnson Poe, 69, Baltimore lawyer, grandnephew of Poet Edgar Allan Poe, eldest of Princeton's famed six footballing Poe brothers; of heart disease; in Washington...
...first half-year deals with American writers up through Poe and Cooper, the majority of whom fall into the Colonial period. While such men as Mather, Edwards, and Bradford are looked upon today as boring chroniclers of a forgotten age, the enthusiastic reader can readily find much of worth and even enjoyment in these old pages. True, in this early stage of American Literature there is more than enough of the much feared religious tract or dismal "ideas on the mind," but these may be reconciled by an hour with Franklin and the Gout or Trumbull and his "Tory Squire...