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...Says Rosamund, the novelist who is the heroine of Deeping's story: "One must suffer in order to be able to say things, my dear." She is only talking to her faithful dog, being too shy to say it to anyone else, but she means it. Rosamund has suffered so much that she has been able to say a great deal, and has become a bestseller. Her shyness arises from the fact that she was born with a nevus (strawberry-mark) all over her left cheek, and at 35 she is a recluse. Except for her blemish...
...Rosamund is not content. She has her friend, her work, her dog, her faithful retainers and a very nice place, as private as possible, overlooking the sea. But she sometimes considers throwing herself over the cliff. Then, one foggy day, a plane crashes in the woods above her house. Rosamund is the only one near; she runs for help, has the battered pilot carried to her house. The poor fellow is so badly smashed that at one point everybody but Rosamund and the reader give him up for dead. He comes around eventually, turns out to be 24, good-looking...
...show, gathered around him such Negro musicians as N. Clark Smith, son of an African tribesman and an authority on African music, William Vodery, who arranged most of Ziegfeld's Show Boat music. Will Marion Cook ("Ghost Ship"), Harry Lawrence Freeman ("Voodoo"), Harry T. Burleigh ("Deep River" ). J. Rosamund Johnson ("Lazy Moon," "Under a Bamboo Tree"), W. C. Handy. No member of the cast of 5,000 was paid a cent. Proceeds will go toward developing young Negro talent...
...wane, unless the novel is very well done. I have just published a novel myself which has been described as 'having a respect for the decencies'-presumably because that is so unusual a thing." Books written by Author-Publisher Lord Gorell include: Babes in the African Wood; Rosamund; Plush; Gauntlet (1931). To the Baron last week Prince George wrote a gracious acknowledgment on the stationery for which he recently designed his own monogram: an Old English G, surmounted by a coronet and surrounded by the Garter. (Same monogram on his handkerchiefs.) "Prince George is," declared a St. James...
This production of "Electra" will have its premiere in Boston. The cast includes: Vivienne Giesen who replaced Rosamund Pinchot as the Nun In Max Reinhardt's "Miracle"; Dorothy Scott, formerly of Margaret Anglin's company in her production of "Electra"; Robert Henderson, whose successes in New York were followed by a year at the Copley Theater in Boston; and George Coulouris whose work with the Theater Guild has received exceptional praise. Louis Horst, noted pianist and the foremost dance accompanist in America has composed the music for the production, and will accompany Miss Graham in her dance...