Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nose and an admiration for Amer ica in general and for Jurgen and Seventh Heaven in particular? Reading a novel is, after all, like being told a story, except that you cannot see the teller. It is like a telephone conversation, only more so. It works both ways. Every thing you learn about the man will explain something in the work, while from every line he writes may be deduced some new and bigger and better repression in his private life. If you find an incident in his latest thriller about the horrible mur der of a mother...
...dramatist, but it is characteristic of him that he will write four or five plays in his mind before a word of one reaches paper. " I like to entertain ideas," he said to me not long ago. " I like that word entertain." Life is to him a thing as bitter as the starkest moments of his tragic poems, as gentle as the sweetest of lyrics. And yet, as he writes in Birches- " Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better...
...POOR MAN?Stella Benson? Macmillan ($2.00). The unheroic " hero " is a " poor, sickly thing," a contemptible, insignificant, friendless Englishman. The book is a catalog of his inadequacies, as opposed to the very different inadequacies of those who despise him, in bohemian California, on the Yangtze in China. The author's pen is a sharp, acidulous weapon...
That disconsolate individual whom you have just passed on the street was probably a playwright. His day has passed. The public will no more of him. The play not only is no longer the thing. It is no longer anything at all. In this best of all possible dr?.matic seasons the actor has taken the bit in his teeth and bolted, with the play rattling and banging along behind...
Said Thomas A. Edison: " I wish that the newspapers would print more of the kind of thing you see in The Literary Digest. That has been a great success. It has no scandal." This vexed The Daily News, New York: " Newspapers print the news. That's why they're called newspapers. That part of the news happens to be scandalous is the fault of the people who make it, not the fault of the newspapers." Readers of the San Francisco Chronicle get fun. No sooner had that journal completed a solve-the- mystery-detective-story Prize Contest than...