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...Harvard College Library has just received the only complete set of the works of "Oliver Onions" in America, which was given by Randolph Edgar '08, literary critic and editor, it was announced yesterday...
...boredom the only menace fostered by the critic; his efforts often constitute a temptation as well. It is far easier, and much more expedient to read and re-hash the comments which appear in the encyclopedia on the subject of Ben Jonson, for instance, than it is to honor the bard and his works with an original treatise. And to complicate matters still further, the former procedure is invariably productive of a better grade. This unfortunate state of affairs doubtless cannot be corrected by consigning to oblivion all critical essays and essayists, past and present; but before absorbing, sponge-like...
...special writer, then dramatic editor, then conductor of a column, finally a free-lance humorist (Fables in Slang) and playwright (The Sultan of Sulu). But Mrs. Lillie West Brown?who preferred to be known as "Amy Leslie"? stayed on at the Daily News as dramatic critic for 40 years. Last week, with fanfare and accolade, the Daily News announced the retirement of the oldest U. S. woman theatre reviewer. "Think of a woman," marveled Author Ade, now aged 64, "going to the theatre several times a week for at least 40 years and keeping her girlish enthusiasm...
...taken home, shouted goodnight and ran for her door. An hour later Red's employer told her that the driver had died w:hile she was in the theatre; unguided, the horse had found the way home. Her friends believe that the most accurate description of Critic Leslie was written by Ben Hecht, long a fellow member of the Daily News staff: "She is the Spring Song by Sousa's Band. . . . She is as bouncing, effervescent, indomitable, cyclonic, ululating and incredible as her literary style. . . . There is a high wind about Amy that blows your hat off." Her successor...
Sheriff W. B. Cahoon of Jacksonville last week arrested Fred O. Eberhardt, publisher of the Tallahassee Florida State News, longtime Carlton critic, Henry Halseman, professional bondsman and Frank Rawls, onetime convict. The charge: conspiracy to kill Florida's Governor Doyle E. Carlton...