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Consideration of old age makes young people think of famed old people. The U. S. has one important centenarian? Emily Rowland of Sherwood, N. Y. Right after the Civil War she worked establishing schools for Negroes in Virginia. She was an early worker for women's rights, temperance (alcoholic), peace, education. Nov. 20 she will be 101. She is unmarried...
...imposing list of names lines the table of contents. Included are Sherwood Anderson, Robert Frost, Conrad Aiken, Lewis Mumford, Babette Deutsch, John Gould Fletcher, Mark van Doren, Burton Rascoe, Waldo Frank and many others...
More than 500 authors and publicists. Last fortnight the Democrats announced an Authors' Committee of 149 names, including Sherwood Anderson, H. L. Mencken, Rupert Hughes, Anita Loos, John Erskine, Finley Peter Dunne, George S. Kaufman, Laurence Stallings, Deems Taylor, etc., etc. (TIME, Sept. 24). The G. O. P. list was by far the bestseller. It included Zane Grey, Harold Bell Wright, Kathleen Norris, Edward W. Bok, Bruce Barton, Earl Derr Biggers, Will Durant, Albert W. Atwood, Robert W. Chambers, Booth Tarkington, Thomas L. Masson, Hermann Hagedorn, Vernon Kellogg, Daniel Frohman, Don Marquis. The last, an oldtime Democrat, author...
Finley Peter Dunne, John Erskine, Montague Glass, Owen Johnson, Rupert Hughes, Anita Loos, Anne Nichols, Channing Pollock, Sherwood Anderson, H. L. Mencken−and 149 other novelists, poets, composers, playwrights, publicists−as an Author's Committee...
Civic Theatre. Last week, the Detroit Civic Theatre opened with its production of The Queen's Husband by Robert Emmett Sherwood. Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford attended the opening and sat in the front row and Governor Green of Michigan, together with municipal officials, occupied...