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...Author. Versatile but able, Gilbert Vivian Seldes is the only man who has ever contributed steadily and simultaneously to both the (late) Dial and the Saturday Evening Post, the (late) Manhattan Evening Graphic and the New Republic. He has been music critic, military expert, war correspondent, editorial writer & foreign correspondent (Philadelphia Public Ledgers), political correspondent (L'Echo de Paris), associate editor (Collier's), managing editor (The Dial). contributing editor (The New Republic), dramatic critic (Manhattan Evening Graphic). At present he writes a Hearst-syndicated colyum. His adaptation of Aristophanes' Lysistrata was a 1930 box-office success. Harvard...
From his childhood up Theodore Bulpington had an imaginary alter ego which he called the Bulpington of Blup, a romantic dream-figure in which he increasingly took refuge from the drab reality of himself. Only child of a dilettante critic and an "advanced" mother, Theodore was born into an artistic, late-1890-ish world, soon took on the protective coloration of his environment. When he met Professor Broxted's children, Teddy and Margaret, he became aware of Science. From then on it was one long discussion, foaming with excitable Wellsian phrases and figures of speech. The children grew...
...curious and unfortunate, for Tchekor at least would have given some support to Mr. Harris' thesis. But the work of both of them might have suggested that the possibility of tragic drama today is a problem for the isolated dramatist to solve in creation, not for the literary critic with a special theory to plead...
...like to take you by the forelock. I was naturally pleased that one of my portraits, which Mr. Jewell, the art critic, had reproduced in the New York Times, had aroused your interest...
...thought the decision would be appealed. The Doherty companies regarded the verdict as a complete victory and their bearded chief and Mrs. Doherty went off on a trip through central Florida with Carl Byoir, his able publicist. Still awaiting trial is Mr. Doherty's answer to his severest critic: a $12,000,000 libel suit against the Kansas City Star...