Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Died. F. Scott Fitzgerald, 44, who suffered a heart attack three weeks ago; author of This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, other books, stories of the "sad young men" of the postwar flapper era; in Hollywood...
...Foolishness (by Paul Vincent Carroll, produced by John Golden) is another misty Irish play, by the author of The White Steed and Shadow and Substance. Maeve McHugh is loved by three brothers-a farmer, a scholar, a Communist fighter. She finds herself unable to belong exclusively to any of them, but always wedded in part, if not in the flesh, to a mystical spirit. It is suggested that she represents Ireland itself. The author may have meant this or something else, but his drama is as vague and uncrystallized as the moonbeams that flood one of the scenes. Sally...
Displaying a fresh nutbrown beard, plump, exuberant Author Christopher Morley played Pandarus, a wily, two-timing businessman of Troy, in the Roslyn, L. I. production of his play, The Trojan Horse. All authors (notably Chaucer and Shakespeare) who wrote about Troilus and Cressida, explained Playwright Morley, wore beards...
...Cherokee Indian chief. An other is Blanche C. Weill, whose Through Children's Eyes, "the story of the 'naughty' child and the timid child, told by themselves," was published the same day as Will You Marry Me? A newer cooperator is Robert Haven Schauffler, author of a standard life of Beethoven. The cooperative offers courses in art, literature, creative writing, radio-script writing, Indian crafts, life saving. Through Children's Eyes and Will You Marry Me? are its first publishing venture...
...Grolier Club is tall, forthright, weathered Harry Twyford Peters, who "works for a living" as a coal merchant, but whose real business is more varied. He is 1) co-Master of the Meadow Brook Hounds, one of the foremost U. S. hunt clubs; 2) leading U. S. authority on fox hunting, author of Just Hunting (1936); 3) inspirer of the national enthusiasm for Currier & Ives, owner of some 15,000 of their prints, author of four scholarly tomes on antique U. S. lithographs; 4) owner of perhaps the world's best private library of sporting books and prints...