Word: sabbatini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Homer did his best for Achilles, Milton managed to make Satan a fairly presentable sort, and Raphael Sabbatini has established Cesar Borgia as an ardent habitue of Sunday schools; yet it remained for Mr. James Braden an erstwhile Yale fullback, to write the epic of a football player in such wise as to cast all these press-gentling jobs into well-merited obscurity. For a week his poetic prose has been the chief ornament of the otherwise drab sporting page of the New York World, chanting the life, works, and more significant remarks of "Red" Grange, who recently taught Pennsylvania...
...school of writing must be developed, a literature written directly for the moving pictures not taken over and adapted to it. And the school is not without apt pupils. Ibanez has achieved success as a cinema author, where he failed as a writer of scenarios, pure and simple. Rafael Sabbatini has developed a new variation of the historical novel built around one interesting central character and his work is likely to find a second outlet in the movie world...
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