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...invite to speak this year is Don Marquis of New York. Last fall Christopher Morley delivered a very amusing address to a full house and he suggested Mr. Marquis for this fall. A. A. Milne may come to this country sometime during the winter. Actors, playwrights and dramatic critics have spoken at luncheons heretofore although last year none appeared on the Union rostrum. This year St. John Ervine, the distinguished English critic who is gracing the pages of the New York World for a few months, may be present. An invitation will be extended to Alexander Wolcott...
Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre is the "ThickHeaded Marshal," if his many savage critics are to be believed. They concede that his phlegmatic refusal to be defeated at the Marne (after appalling losses) saved Paris. But they blame him for the still more titanic losses suffered by the Allies in their failure to push through the great Offensive of the Somme. Placid "Papa" Joffre is even now dictating his vindication, his book-and promises to spare no critic...
...occasions when he turned his front to the audience, generally had his mouth too full to talk. This mousy character was called Bellflower; actually he was Russel Grouse, columnist of the New York Evening Post, making his demure debut on the stage. For the antics of Columnist Grouse all critics had a pretty word to say. Walter Winchell of the New York Evening Graphic called him SourCrouse while the Actor-Journalist's wife, Alison Smith, able critic for the New York World, paid her husband the neatest compliment...
...mine was printed in my home paper. ... I attended seven different colleges here and abroad [including Harvard]. ... I came back to America on the last western trip made by the Lusitania, and went to a sanitarium for two months." In short, S. S. Van Dine is Willard Huntington Wright, critic and Smart Set's onetime editor, whose history may be found in any copy of Who's Who. He lives in Manhattan. "Recently," says he, "a bright reporter, who had read too much, oh, far too much! Sherlock Holmes, conceived the brilliant idea of visiting my home...
Married. Helen Hayes, famed & winsome actress (What Every Woman Knows, Coquette); and Charles MacArthur, playwright (Lulu Belle, The Front Page, with Ben Hecht); in Manhattan. Of the wedding party were Critic Alexander Woollcott, Novelist Ben Hecht...