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Alma Rubens, TIME, Feb. 10, p. 71, "made a redebut at a Hollywood night club." It's not lair to Alma. She appeared in a sketch at the monthly offering of the Writers' Club, of Hollywood, of which Rupert Hughes is, or was last year, president. That was her redebut. And the Writers' Club of Hollywood is no more a night club than is the home of the Century Association of New York. Except upon the occasion of its monthly stage entertainments its nights are dull and dreary. Please put our Alma right with your readers...
...intend to go to Europe in the near future either to study or to write a biography, possibly of Alexander the Great. I have been collecting material about Rupert Brooke, the promising English poet killed in the World War, and I may write his biography...
There is a theory, especially prevalent on the Pacific coast, that when prose is printed in vertical snatches it becomes poetry. A current convert to this theory is Novelist Rupert Hughes, who has written an introduction for a book* by a Miss Virginia Church, California schoolteacher, in which he says she reminds him of Edgar Lee Masters and Sappho. He calls her pages "poems," a definition which may mislead other schoolteachers or puzzle them when they read what are really excerpts from an observant, slightly sentimental diary filled with familiar schoolhouse fauna. Samples...
...helped U. S. munitions makers, though differently. People were not sending their daughters off to school in Europe in 1914. Miss Noland got some specially fine daughters among her first Foxcrofters. Flora Whitney, whose turfwise family knew the Middleburg atmosphere, was an early and helpful matriculant. Novelist Rupert Hughes sent his dark daughter Avis. Other New York names later enrolled were Vander Poel, Milburn, Wickes, Griswold. From Philadelphia came a Clothier. From Boston came a daughter of Editor Ellery Sedgwick of the Atlantic Monthly; from Chicago came Pattersons of the Tribune. From the first Miss Charlotte managed to keep...