Word: bromfield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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AWAKE AND REHEARSE-Louis Bromfield-Stokes...
Essence of the Midwest was Author Bromfield's best book (The Green Bay Tree). Accurately New England was his Pulitzer Prize novel (Early Autumn). Awake and Rehearse includes a third sort of American, the Henry James-Edith Wharton expatriate variety. Bubbling over with abundance of "material," Author Bromfield has been praised for having much to say, blamed for saying it hastily in slovenly prose. This time he says less, says it better. Awake and Rehearse is a macabre title for a group of 13 stories (four are new; nine have appeared in magazines), each of which concerns death...
This collection is a group of twenty stories which have appeared in American magazines from August 1927 to June 1928. The list of authors is made up of men and women reasonably well known and include Katherine Brush, Frederick Brennan, Fannie Hurst, Irwin Cobb, Louis Bromfield and Dorothy Parker...
...blood of Alpine frigidity. There were four bothersome women, many bothersome creditors. He faked a death, eluded the creditors, could not elude one blonde (Natalie Schafer). But by that time his Wood was rather Italian. Playwright Leonard Ide uses the episodic development with flashbacks lately popularized by Novelists Wilder & Bromfield. The second episode, with Ralph J. Locke as a French husband whose adjustment to his wife's infidelity shows skilled amorous economics, is the funniest. Otherwise the froth refuses to bubble...
...Author. Louis Bromfield is one of those who live in Paris the better to get perspective on the American scene, but his origins are all-American. Born (1896) in Ohio of Boston-Maryland stock, he went to public schools, and to the Cornell Agricultural School. During the War he served with the French Army, in numerous sectors from Switzerland to the North Sea. He then resumed newspaper jobs in Manhattan, wrote up current theatre, worked on a music magazine...