Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Though written by Bide Dudley, chatty theatre editor of the New York Evening World, the play is redundant, filled with burdensome explanations of obvious situations. The predicament of Husband Carter is invested with little or no dramatic dignity. Tripping delicately between silliness and indelicacy, as if performing an egg dance, Richard Gordon gives a deft, sincere but inevitably useless performance as Husband Carter...
...Inventor Bosch contended that his name did not become the property of American Bosch Corp. in 1917 since he had an agreement with the original company that they might use his name only so long as they bought their materials from the German parent plant. But no written agreement to this effect had been made. Inventor Bosch's contention collapsed. Nor could he protest the original seizure of the Bosch stock, because of a restraining post-War German-American treaty. Under this treaty Germany agreed that its citizens would institute no legal proceedings over U. S. war-time acts...
...interim. Fame had come to Floyd Dell. He had written some novels that sold [Moon Calf, The Briary Bush, This Mad Ideal]. Lately he biographed Upton Sinclair, the California liberty-shouter. The past winter the innocuous father farce Little Accident, based on his book The Unmarried Father, has been a money-getter on Broadway...
...following editorial was written by a member of the Class of 1929, unconnected with the Crimson. This comment is taken from the 1929 questionnaire, and will appear exactly as printed below in the First 1929 Class Report. The Crimson does not necessarily endorse the opinion expressed below but feels that it should be of interest to members of the University...
This is a summary account of the high spots in the record of a single year's routine at the Harvard Library. Other chapters could be written, that would be less spectacular but just as full of every-day human interest and quite as important for the all around development of the Library as the greatest of all collections for the prosecution of productive scholarship, as well as for the education of young Americans. More significant than anything else in this record, however, is the fact that nothing has happened in 1928-29 which is not likely to be matched...