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...people have been staying away from for years. The particular locale of The Bird, Cage is a gaudily sordid nightclub; the particular hard guy is the nightclub's boss. For the rest, Playwright Laurents invents nothing, improves nothing, omits nothing. He has successfully combed the market for a strand of perfectly matched cliches...
...Strand that first published Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill, H. G. Wells's The First Men in the Moon and W. W. Jacobs' "Night Watchman" stories; it gave a head start to such other up-&-coming writers and illustrators as P. G. Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, A. E. W. Mason, George Bernard Shaw, Max Beerbohm, Osbert Lancaster and Sidney Paget...
...Lived. Under Greenough Smith, the magazine also spurred the Edwardian spirit of adventure and empire by travelogues, picture biographies of famous men and foreign correspondence by Winston Churchill (see THE HALF-CENTURY). The Strand's notable scientific articles were usually written by nonscientists. When Greenough Smith wanted an article on orchids and the writer protested that he "hardly knew an orchid from a geranium," the editor replied: "Just the thing. I will give you an introduction to the greatest of orchid growers, and if you will write an article on what interests and enlightens you, then [it] will interest...
When Captain Robert Scott was preparing for his second expedition to the South Pole, the Strand signed up his exclusive story. After Navyman Scott and four of his party died of cold and hunger on the way back from the Pole in 1912, the Strand scored a major international beat when a search party found his dramatic diary: "Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale...
Where Are They Now? Editor Greenough Smith, rich in journalistic honors, died in 1935. Deprived of his sure touch, the Strand declined rapidly. In World War II, the shortage of good fiction-and paper to print it on-hit the magazine even harder. When the Strand's traditional format and cover were discarded in favor of a pocket-sized, sophisticated approach, the magazine lost the last traits of its old character without developing a new one. Complained new Editor MacDonald Hastings, who took over in 1944: "Where are the Conan Doyles today, and where are the readers who want...