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...Secret Journey is a wilder and more powerful book. Centring around a sinister moneylender, Mrs. Anna Ragner, who has involved Mrs. Fury in fantastic debts, it is written in an even more sombre key than The Furys, pictures events more nerve-racking, hysterical, violent. Mrs. Fury has borrowed in order to keep Peter at college, borrowed more to pay interest, pledged her furniture, the earnings of her family, the possessions of her son-in-law, the compensation paid for her son's injury. At the day of reckoning Peter returns after a year at sea, is astonished when...
...while he helped promote her into a directorship of her own. She directed Ruth Chatterton in Sarah and Son, which gave Miss Arzner her reputation for handling emotional drama. Arzner successes since have always been with this sort of material, featuring women players like Katharine Hepburn (Christopher Strong), Anna Sten (Nona...
...children to support, funds were low in the Hoffman house. Malvina Hoffman earned money to continue her art studies by designing book jackets, wall paper, linoleum. In Paris she became a pupil, later a good friend of aging Auguste Rodin, won her first real fame with a bronze of Anna Pavlova as a dancing bacchante. Her best known works since then have been three heads of Ignace Paderewski (The Statesman, The Artist, The Friend), the colossal stone figures over the entrance to London's Bush House and the recumbent crusader that is Harvard's War Memorial...
...Also working under difficulties last week was another United Feature columnist, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. While her attack of influenza was putting her on the front page, My Day continued to appear as usual in the feature section. On the clay General Johnson's truncated column went to United's clients, Columnist Roosevelt reported: "Everyone should be a little ill now and then in order to be reminded how very kind and thoughtful the rest of the world is to those of us who fall by the wayside. . . . I have just been asked what flavor I would like...
...mixture of letters from readers and articles by professionals, Publisher Hecht got his 100,000 subscribers in two years. Contributors included Psychologists Alfred Adler and John B. Watson, Adman Earnest Elmo Calkins, Philosopher Bertrand Russell, Dr. Allan Roy ("Quintuplets") Dafoe, Writers Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Kathleen Norris, Albert Payson Terhune, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. On the subscription list were the Lindberghs, Mrs. Irving Thalberg, John D. Rockefeller III. In his tenth anniversary number...