Word: sherwoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Emmet Sherwood '18, author, and member of the board of governors of the Cambridge School of the Drama, will lecture on the writing of plays tomorrow afternoon in Harvard Hall, room 1 at 4'o clock. All Harvard and Radcliffe students interested in the theatre are invited to attend the talk...
...Author. LeRoy MacLeod, once an adman like Sherwood Anderson, founded the advertising agency of Waters & MacLeod (Los Angeles), retired from it in 1929 to cultivate the thankless muse. Three Steeples is his first novel, but he has also written a book of verse, Driven, which called forth from his great & good friend Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols, English poet, the statement that MacLeod is "the only United States poet I have known with the 'Hardy' quality...
...Royal Bed (Warner). They have been so careful with this that it is not funny at all. On the stage as The Queen's Husband, it was scintillating comedy, and since few liberties have been taken with Robert Sherwood's story it is hard to see why this elaborate photograph of a good play should be so dull. Lowell Sherman, the director, also acts the king who, bullied by his ministers and his wife, finds his only pleasure in cheating a little as he plays checkers with the palace flunkeys. When the Queen goes away and a revolution...
...when they are brutally offensive. Jo Boshere will leave few readers without some fellow-feeling. Hecht's dialog is nearer real life than most authors dare go. Ben Hecht was a small, dark, demoniac member of the Chicago literary circle that gave the U. S. such figures as Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg. Big-eyed, thick-lipped, baldish, he looks Mediterranean rather than Jewish. With Charles MacArthur (husband of Actress Helen Hayes) he wrote the Broadway smash-hit The Front Page; with the same collaborator has written a new play that will be produced this year. Other books...
...bluffed his way through the eyesight test but was found out. He tried advertising and was good at it, like Author Sherwood Anderson, but resigned to write. In 1926 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, went to France and wrote John Brown's Body. Some months ago he followed the well-worn path to Hollywood to write the dialog for Abraham Lincoln (TIME, Sept. 8). Other books: Five Men and Pompey, The Beginning of Wisdom, Spanish Bayonet...