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...occupies a strategic but embarrassing position. Strategic, because he can refuse to let more be known of himself than that he was born in Jefferson, Tex., went to school and college in "that prodigious state", worked on The Dallas News and The New York Times, had short stories in Scribner's, Collier's and other magazines. Embarrassing, because he is obliged to tout his own work for the good of his employers, and to send out pictures of a countenance, whose ascetic air he would denounce as false-seeming. The embarrassment should end speedily; the work will tout itself...
...PENCILED FROWN?James Gray?Scribner's ($2.00)?It was penciled on the self-conscious countenance of Timothy Wynkoop, hardly weaned from college and already dramatic critic of The Indian City (Ia.) Leader. It was meant to convey the wearer's enormous intelligence, his artistic nature, his critical acumen. It often appeared when Timothy was planning his "major" novels and was always there when he sat, scornfully dignified, at visiting shows. Gradually it was erased by employers, women and the flopping of Timothy's first play. When the last line disappeared and Timothy became a humble cub reporter, his best...
...Pennington 1,641 Senator Lawrence Phipps 157,741 Mary Pickford 34,075 Col. William C. Proctor (Ivory Soap) 22,888 Sergei Rachmaninoff 8,026 John D. Rockefeller Sr 128,420 Theodore Roosevelt 1,061 Col. Jacob Ruppert 37,111 Babe Ruth 3,432 Mortimer L. Schiff 459,410 Charles Scribner 53,662 Zalmon G. Simmons (Beds) 250,378 Harry F. Sinclair 47,709 Governor Al Smith 0 Frank W. Stearns 43,156 James A. Stillman 167,085 Billy Sunday 10,111 Gloria Swanson 57,075 Charles P. Taft (Brother of W. H. Taft) 151,430 Mrs. Charles P. Taft...
CARAVAN-John Galsworthy-Scribner. ($2.50). Novels, especially the long, sober kind Mr. Galsworthy writes, are stately vehicles riding by the public view. Here is a more informal procession of tales and sketches in which, for a very modest fare indeed, one may go forth on 56 different excursions, in many directions and at the many paces that a writer hits up between his crisp youth and reflective middle...
DRUMS - James Boyd - Scribner ($2.50). "Watch James Boyd," declared John Galsworthy - a hortative which, unless it was addressed as a warning to some gentleman who had contemplated inviting Mr. Boyd to dinner, has a decidedly complimentary turn, and is reproduced on the dust-jacket of this 490-page novel of the American Revolution concerning the adventures of John Fraser : how his father was a Tory, his lady a revolutionist ; how he, torn between two personal voices and not particularly concerned with the wider issues of his country's dilemma, went to England, France, Scotland, looking for a fence...