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Having completed last year an experimental two-reeler, La Cucaracha (which grossed $350,000), the Whitneys held a story conference to choose a feature subject. The vogue for clean pictures, the necessity for glamorous costumes and the current popularity of Victorian classics made a dramatic version of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair appear to be ideal. For a director the Whitneys chose Lowell Sherman. For a star they chose Miriam Hopkins. Becky Sharp went into production almost a year ago. By last week, it had survived a series of unprecedented mishaps...
...edited by men later to become famous as authors, is being held in the Widener Room of the Widener Library for the next two weeks. Among the men who contribute to these magazines are Robert Louis Stevenson, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Rudyard Kipling, Andrew Lang, Lewis Carroll, and William Makepeace Thackeray...
Next comes four volumes of "College Rhymes," contributed to by members of Oxford and Cambridge. The first volume is edited by Lewis Carroll, and the others contain many of his poems. There are also two etchings, done by Thackeray while he was a student at Cambridge, depicting college life...
Following his usual custom, Professor Copeland has not made public a list of selections which he will read. In the past he has read selections from the Bible, Thackeray, Kipling, Stephen Leacock, and many others. No matter what he reads, the audience is sure to be pleased...
Look over the next in the series. In all eighty-seven authors are represented, with New England leading. But Dickens and Thackeray, Charles Kingsley and Jean Ingelow, Tennyson, even the London Times, are in the list. Whittler tells about "the fish I didn't catch," and Tom Hood about "faithless Nelly Grey...