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Died. Harry Hervey, 50, explorer, author (The Damned Don't Cry, The Veiled, Fountain) and screen writer (Shanghai Express, Road to Singapore), who, at 16, sold his first story to H. L. Mencken's Smart Set, produced a popular novel every year between 1923 and 1933; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...Wynn Show (Tues. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). Guests: Cesar Romero, Allan Jones, Irene Hervey...
...Died. Hervey Allen, 60, historical romancer, whose rambling, bulky Anthony Adverse (2 ¾Ibs., 1,224 pp.), published when he was 44, brought him fame & fortune; of a heart attack; in Miami. Writer also of a major work on Poe (Israfel, 1926), Author Allen had completed before his death three volumes (The Forest and the Fort, Bedford Village, Toward the Morning) of a proposed pentalogy (The Disinherited) about colonial America...
Strictly as an account of Dreiser's bitter early years, this is one of the best biographies of an American literary figure since Israfel, Hervey Allen's life of Poe. Its report of Dreiser's last years is perfunctory and its criticism of his work is so noncommittal that the reader has trouble in fathoming Author Elias' own opinion. But Dreiser's youth in the gaslit underworld of Terre Haute, his work in the rowdy newspaper and music publishing houses of the turn of the century, and above all, the gaudy entrances & exits...
...tragedy is one that haunts the imagination no matter how much or how little is known of his life. Hervey Allen's Israfel cleared up most of the legendary mysteries of his career without making the poet himself any less strange, or unearthly a character. This handsome two-volume edition of Poe's letters, the work of John Ward Ostrom (associate professor of English at Wittenberg College), is essential to every serious student of Poe's career; but on the basis of this collection alone the reader might well form a picture of America's greatest...