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...home Frank and Anne figure out the trends of their serials four to six weeks in advance, dictate outlines to a battery of stenographers. Outline for an episode (Backstage Wife) may read something like this: "Suspecting that Cynthia Valcourt murdered Candy Dolan with Ward Ellman's gun, after Tess left the fiat, Mary, Larry and Ward rush to Tony Valcourt's penthouse to have a talk with Tony and Cynthia, having sent Tess Morgan to her apartment. Arriving at the penthouse, they are refused admittance by the butler. . . . If Cynthia gets away, Tess may take...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When Pearl Buck's novel The Good Earth appeared in 1931, it was at once acclaimed as the superlative word-picture of China. When Hollywood started to produce The Good Earth in 1933, it set out to make its picture equally superlative. Twenty writers, including Tess Slesinger, Marc Connelly, Talbot Jennings and Claudine West tried their band at adapting the stage version written by Owen and Donald Davis. Director George Hill went to China, returned with a boatload of authentic properties, presently committed suicide. Victor Fleming took the helm, quit with malaria. Sidney Franklin finished...
TIME : THE PRESENT-Tess Slesinger- Simon & Schuster...
...recalled to Manhattan to write editorials, had resigned instead to free-lance in London. Died. Dr. Dorothy Scarborough, 58, author, associate professor of English at Columbia University where she conducted a popular course in novel and short-story writing; after brief illness; in Manhattan. Among her onetime pupils: Authors Tess Slesinger (The Unpossessed), Myron Brinig (This Man Is My Brother). Died. Rev. William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, 72, famed evangelist; of heart disease; in Chicago (see p. 46). Died. Walter Lowrie Fisher, 73, Chicago lawyer and traction expert, Secretary of the Interior under President Taft; of coronary thrombosis; in Hubbard Woods...
...Story became their legal property, the Burnetts staying on as editors, working alternate weeks as usual. Under the Cerf management. Story grew to some 30,000 circulation but it got few advertisements, showed no profit. It attracted the manuscripts of many an ambitious U. S. writer, "discovered" William Saroyan, Tess Slesinger, Peter Neagoe, Dorothy McCleary. Surprising was the fact that the stories in Story were not better than they were. To describe them critics invented the phrase, "The Over-the-Edge-of-the-Table School," meaning that Story stones generally had the point of view of children peering...