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...time he wrote a column, Trifles & Baubles. His one & only novel, The Tragic Hunt, appeared in 33 installments, was so complicated that most readers lost the thread of the plot. He signed his stuff by many a pseudonym, usually "Antosha Chekhonte." By the time he had taken his medical degree he had become a professional journalist. Said he: "Literature is my mistress and medicine my lawful wife." As a doctor, he knew he was threatened with tuberculosis but would never admit it, refused to be examined. Potent Alexey Suvorin, editor of St. Petersburg's Novoe Vremya, biggest Russian daily...
Black Limelight (by Gordon Sherry; Busbar & Tuerk, producers). The villain of Black Limelight suffers from "nyctalopia." This medical term actually means an eyesight defect resulting in poor vision at night, but for the purposes of Author Gordon Sherry (a pseudonym) it refers to eyes which can see well in the dark but must be protected by thick glasses from the light of day. The monster's homicidal mania leaps up at the time of the full moon. Working in the dark, he takes off his glasses, puts on gloves, chokes the victim to death, cuts her up with artistic...
Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke is a distant cousin of Denmark's King Christian. His first wife is a middle-aged woman named Ellen, who divorced him in 1921, wrote best-selling Seven Gothic Tales in 1934 under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen. Baron Bror's second wife is a pert, pretty, English girl of 28, named Eva, who spends most of her time seeking adventure. During one long trek alone in Africa, her automobile broke down. She had to be pushed by natives for 32 days. In Ethiopia last year she watched...
Barbusse quotes Lenin as saying in the same letter as early as 1911, "Kobi's [a Stalin pseudonym] articles deserve the closest attention. It is difficult to imagine a better refutation ot he opinions and hopes of our conciliators and Trotsky and his like are worse than all the liquidators who express their thoughts openly. All those who support the Trotsky group are supporting the policy of lies and deceptions toward the workers...
Shapiro, who listed his intended vocation in the Album as playwright, wrote under the pseudonym of Joseph M. Viertel. He is 21 years old and prepared for Harvard at Staunton Military Academy, where perhaps he gathered the background for his work...