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...case you are interested in such things, the leading players are Messrs Donald Brian, Herbert Corthell, and Miss Jeanette MacDonald. We've never heard of them, and can't help wondering...

Author: By V. O. J., | Title: THE AYE'S HAVE IT AT THE WILBUR | 4/27/1927 | See Source »

...Brian Oswald Dorm-Byrne, the storyteller, has now done* what it has long seemed he might do-put aside his sentimental inclination and surrendered himself completely to the language of the Bible, to the epic fever of the century that produced the last great religion. The fighting man in him has chosen the most iron man of that time for a hero, and while the fabulous First Century colors, passions and mysteries of the Near East are heaped in the pages like exotic scenery beside a straight white road, the story is a lean dark runner on the road, Saul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Apr. 25, 1927 | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...Written especially for the Crime by John Rafferty O'Brian, Y. C. upon his return from the first authentic trip to St. Nicholas Island ever made by mortal man. Applause, please. Ready, Mr. Conductor...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 12/14/1926 | See Source »

Beverly Tucker Thompson '28 of Chicago, Illinois, was named as Second Assistant Manager; Arthur Anrews Holbrook '28 of Mlwaukee, Wisconsin as Second Assistant Manager of Cross Country; Frederick Robert-son Griffin '28 of Philadelphia as Second Assistant Manager in charge of Interscholastics; and Brian Bancroft Long '28 of Greenwich, Connecticut, as Second Assistant Manager in charge of Inter-class track...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR SOPHOMORES WIN POSTS AS MANAGERS OF TRACK TEAM | 6/1/1926 | See Source »

...Author. Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne was born in Manhattan less than 40 years ago, with a long north-of-Ireland genealogy. From three on, he grew up on the family estate in Ireland, getting faery lore and the Gaelic. His college learning was at Dublin, Paris, Leipzig; he served an editorial apprenticeship in the U. S. Until he wrote Messer Marco Polo (1921), few guessed his genius and there were money struggles, hard ones. His wife, Dolly Donn-Byrne, writes too-collaborated with Gilda Varesi on the play Enter Madame. There are four little Donn-Byrnes, including the twins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Wry Blarney | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

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