Word: wright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Entertainment will be furnished by Bert Lowe's best seven-piece orchestra and by the Merrymount double quartet. One feature of the evening will be the performance of W. S. Wilson '27 and J. H. Wright '25, the stars of the Hasty Pudding show, who will execute a dance. Refreshments will be served and souvenirs distributed...
Harold Bell Wright...
...were those by Sax Rohmer, that he considered Mrs. Rinehart's K the best book he had ever read, that Joseph Conrad was his delight. He didn't like the novels of Zane Grey because they were all so much alike, and he'd never heard of Harold Bell Wright. This last piece of information gave me a start...
...there anyone else in the U. S. who has not heard of Harold Bell Wright? I met him for the first time last week, and found him a gentleman of dignity and opinions, tall, rawboned, looking somewhat like the preacher he used to be, and, at the moment I glimpsed him, very much interested in problems of the American Indian. He is always interested in problems. That is the secret of the success of his books. He knows how to preach, and he preaches well in fiction. His novels are primarily religious, although he might deny that fact. I rather...
Wherever the name of popular writing is given, Mr. Wright stands as a symbol. From what some folk write of him, you would see him as a violent newspaper man sitting at his typewriter, spinning out stories to catch the popular mind and fill his own pocketbook. Long before one meets him, one is sure that he is nothing of the sort. Reading his novels is enough to convince any thinking person of his sincerity. Then, too, how could a man born in Rome, N.Y., who has been both landscape-gardener and preacher, be totally lacking in sincerity...