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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...light comedians that anything he is acting in comes already guaranteed. He is not, as yet, one of our' best playwrights and as far as this (his first effort) goes, the guarantee must be tempered with a hint that Murray Hill is only fairly funny. Mr. Howard has written of spinsters horrified by intoxicated men-about-town; of a will which promises golden future to a young man if he behaves. But he does not. There are two mixed identities and an urbane love interest. As a player, Mr. Howard is, as always, immensely entertaining...
...name has been among the notables. Meanwhile, Mrs. Gleason was swaggering, noisy and caustic, through Merton of the Movies and The Butter and Egg Man. Now the family (with the exception of a sophomore son at University of California) have pooled potentialities and are appearing in a play written, directed and acted chiefly by the house of Gleason. Like the memorable Is Zat So?, this new play can selom be confused with Art. It is frank and fertile; filled with incessant, lifesize laughter. It tells of two vaudeville strollers who buy a small town hotel and mingle intrepidly with...
...active trader had Mr. Booth been, with hundreds of clients to represent. Apparently his misconduct had been technical. But the penalty was heavy disgrace. He had vanished from his hotel, leaving no clue, only a note disposing of a nebulous estate in favor of his sister and brother; had written in a letter "in case anything should happen to me through accident or otherwise. . . ." Wall Street veterans shook their heads. It was not the first time a ruined broker had thus prepared...
...home, to "Gallions Reach." The lands and water over which Colet is driven by a sprinting remembrance are faintly reminiscent of those over which the great figures of Joseph Conrad strode. Hence Author Tomlinson, a shy, ugly, middle-aged man whose life has been in strange places, who has written this first novel, full of fine and original writing, has been unjustly called an imitator, a disciple...
...Black, who lectured here from 1891 to 1893 and was on the Extension Commission from 1910 to 1927, was an author of note, having written several books on Shakespeare and been editor of the Hudson Shakespeare...