Word: typists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Authoress Delmar's manuscript is not illuminated with metaphor or stylistic arabesques. She writes her tawdry tale as simply as she might speak it. Daughter of show folks, onetime actress, usher, typist, she enjoys playing chess and ten nis badly, is 24, a mother. She has lived not only in The Bronx, but in Belmar, N. J., Scarsdale, N. Y. She returns from a European trip in November...
Major and Mrs. Frederic McLaughlin, of Chicago, stepped on a dance-floor at Phoenix, Ariz., but soon stepped off again. Reason: a marathon dance was in progress and the competitors, watching Mrs. McLaughlin (Irene Castle), felt tired, nettled. Mercedes Gleitz, 28, onetime London typist, English Channel swimmer,* last week broke her engagement to Private William Farrance of the British Army, whom she had met by mail. Said she: "I have thought the matter over and feel convinced that I shall never be able to settle clown as a wife until I have successfully swum the Irish Channel, the Wash...
Eddie Collins hides a heart of gold under a curt manner. He won't allow his young wife to continue as typist, because silently he remembers his work-ridden mother. Bored, Dot window-shops on Eddie's forty-a-week, but Eddie refuses to buy furniture "on time." Finally they find a drab little apartment where Dot busies herself with pink ruffled curtains, neat drawers of kitchen utensils, and (rather than an abortion) "keeping her baby," to the raucous tune of "something good on the radio"-the delirious Democratic Convention of 1924. Follow the usual pangs and pains...
Author Delmar, 23, Bronx-bred herself, reports with winning sincerity the workaday story of small-town white Harlem. Except for formalistic lapses that smack of the copies and carbon copies of her typist days, Mrs. Delmar sticks to the racy inelegant talk of the Collins's and their friends, and thus brings them into the limelight of current fiction, featured with Harlem blacks, New England neurotics, mid-western realtors, Manhattan flappers, Riviera swells. The Literary Guild has made Bad Girl its April choice, because "around the simple story is woven a background so authentic it has the quality...
...This afternoon I am having as my guests at tea a number of high school girls who have won prizes for fast typing. Any one of them, in learning to be a fast, accurate typist, does far more for the community than a dozen Gertrude Ederles or Ruth Elders."?Winifred Sackville Stoner (founder of the League for Fostering Genius...