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Despite the fact that all these macabre heroics lead to a comparatively happy ending, Today We Live, adapted by Edith Fitzgerald and Dwight Taylor, is unmistakably a Faulkner production. Author Faulkner constructed it on the lines of his short story "Turn About," published in the Satevepost last year. It has all the Faulkner mannerisms from sentimental morbidity to painfully telegraphic dialog of which the following is an example...
...half bad for melodrama is the last act of Hangman's Whip. Not half good enough are the lumbering first two acts. Author Raine, writer of the Saturday Evening Post's "Tugboat Annie" stories, used some of his previous Satevepost material in his present concoction...
Liquor and even cigarets are still questionable commodities to the Saturday Evening Post. Rarely does Editor George Horace Lorimer permit an illustration of a woman smoking, practically never of a man or woman drinking. Last week's Satevepost was an exception. One article had pictures of a man beaming over a champagne goblet, a girl toying with an aperitif; but the text pointed a moral. Entitled "I Fell Off the Water Wagon," it was the testimonial of a middle-aged man who reached the final conclusion that drink is a curse. Apparently that was enough alcohol in one issue...
...Martin, whose life is insured for $6,500,000, is "crown prince" of the publishing family, but there was no surprise in Publisher Curtis' choice of his successor, Editor George Horace Lorimer of the Satevepost. Son-in-Law Martin has plenty to do running the newspapers. Many years ago Mr. Curtis turned the management of all three magazines over to Editor Lorimer. Neither man was present in the oak-paneled board room overlooking Independence Square last week when the resignation and election were effected. The directors issued a statement that "Mr. Curtis . . . wishes to be relieved of the cares...
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