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COMMAND DECISION (258 pp.]-William Wister Haines - Little, Brown...
...Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Lady of Quality; 1899-Edward Noyes Westcott's David Harum, Charles Major's When Knighthood Was in Flower; 1901-Winston Churchill's* The Crisis; 1902-Owen Wister's The Virginian, Alice Hegan Rice's Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch; 1905-Mrs. Humphry Ward's The Marriage of William Ashe, 1908-Rex Beach's The Barrier; 1912-Gene Stratton Porter's The Harvester; 1914-Eleanor H. Porter's Polly anna. 1916-Booth Tarkington's Seventeen. Harold Bell Wright's When...
...Virginian (Paramount). Everett Cyril Johnson, who claimed to be the Virginian of Owen Wister's novel, died in Calgary, Alberta just before this latest einemadaptation of his exploits was released. It was for him, perhaps, a blessing in disguise...
...According to Johnson, he and Wister were ranch hands together. When Wister, years later, told him he was the hero of the novel, Johnson replied: "Well, that's going to be quite a book, that...
...Upton Sinclair's The Jungle created a furore worthy of Zola and led directly to the passage of the Pure Food and Drugs Act. But on the year's best-seller list it was handily topped by the newest novels of three perennial favorites, Winston Churchill, Owen Wister (Lady Baltimore), and Robert W. Chambers (The Fighting Chance...