Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That a play in nine episodes such as "Escape" could run twenty weeks in New York is a good deal of a triumph. If you were to tell an average playwright to take nine scenes, a prisoner escaping, and later being caught, with no trace of romance, and write a play out of it, he would turn out something of a mess, unquestionably. There is not much on the surface to work with...
...Galsworthy makes the small parts real, any man can write a lead that will not play too badly, but so much of the fineness of the play lies in the small parts that the great playwright won't overlook them...
...Marion Democrat (combined circulation, 5,000) he explained to whom it might concern: 'I am doing it primarily to make a living. My books have never sold." Last week Editor & Publisher Anderson confided to readers of the Democrat: "The trouble with us is that we have to write the whole paper, and make our living nights. You can't make money and have as much fun as we are having with these papers." Readers of the Democrat wondered when their editor's breadwinning novel would appear...
...teach him how to dance; before he had time to learn, a soldier murdered him. Henry Christophe, the billiard marker, during all this time had done more than watch the sudden noisy game of war that his people were playing in the lazy island. He had learned how to write his last name and he had become a soldier, a general, a governor under Dessalines. When Dessalines died, Henry Christophe was made president for four years, then appointed King...
...become a "mountain man." Soon he was counted among the best. He knew the habits of game animals, was well versed in customs and mental processes of the Indian. He had a reputation for absolute truthfulness and reliability, and was a crack shot. He never learned to read or write (except his name), but he knew Mexican Spanish, Canadian French, and a half dozen Indian tongues. He was the first white man to become a cowboy, the greatest Indian fighter the country ever had. Before he was 50, he had scores of scalps to his credit and many an Indian...