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Novelist Priestley, after reading Miss Hurst's critique, after consulting his friend Manhattan Critic Henry Seidel Canby, beat a retreat on the ground that he had been joking, stated: "I am one of those strange Englishmen who really have a sense of humor...
East Lynne (Fox). Mrs. Henry Wood wrote East Lynne in 1861. For 20 years after that it was regarded as a supreme creation. Now someone in the Fox script department has detected that East Lynne is more than a dramatic critic's joke. An old admirer of lovely Lady Isabel causes all her trouble when he takes her, unchaperoned, to a dance, and later goes to her bedroom to tell her of his love. East Lynne is not worth the talent that has gone into it (Clive Brook, Ann Harding, and Conrad Nagel form the triangle, and Joseph Urban...
...committee of grave judges (Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller, Sculptors James Earle Fraser, Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, Critic Elisabeth Luther Gary) wandered around the tables of Ovington's New York china shop, awarded...
First part, titled As It Was, appeared under the initials "H. T." in 1927. found so many readers Mrs. Thomas decided to continue her story and avow her authorship. First & last a lovestory, it is outspoken to the breaking-point. Uncaustic Critic John Middleton Murry calls it "a love that was so utterly candid as it was utterly innocent...
This gift has especial significance as a memorial to a member of the Harvard Class of 1877 who was not only a poet of distinction and an excellent critic, but also a leading exponent of Shelley among American men of letters. Curiously enough, George Woodberry as Class poet instilled so many modernistic ideas in his poem that its reading was finally prohibited. He held a very significant place in the annals of higher education through his influence during ten years of teaching at Columbia