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Professor Phelps is widely known as a writer and a critic. His latest work is "Human Nature in the Bible", while others are "Essays on Books", "Essays on Modern Dramatists", etc. He graduated from Yale in 1887, took his Master's degree at Harvard in 1891, and has been teaching at Yale since...
These are the plays, which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important: PEER GYNT-Ibsen's tragi-comic epic of the seeker of self-realization, effectively staged by Kommisashevsky, master of the Russian School of Expressionism, and competently acted by Joseph Schildkraut. Some of the settings by Lee Simonson mark the high points in his enviable record of artistic achievement. ROMEO AND JULIET-Next to Hamlet the longest run a Shakespearean play has enjoyed in America in the current century. Superbly acted by Jane Cowl and Rollo Peters. MERTON OF THE MOVIES - The pathos of hokum. Glenn...
...generally considered to be the most "cultured" of all Hearst's men. ¶ Mr. Hearst took over the Baltimore American (morning) and the Baltimore News (evening) from Frank A. Munsey two weeks ago. The News retains its old format, but The American already bears its master's mark on every page...
Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis started life with three cents. He accumulated a fortune. All his life he founded or bought papers doomed to failure, but never once did he fail. He hates details but can easily grasp them. He is a master of business but it has not enslaved him. He loves big things. He works hard. He enjoys vacations. He has always been scrupulously honest. He is a perfect judge of men. His associates and employees adore him. Cyrus H. K. Curtis is public-spirited. He is spiritual-minded. He never took music lessons but can play the organ...
Hall Caine, British novelist: "Harvey Fly, an American, is suing me for $5,000 as commission on the sale of the film rights of The Master of Man to the Goldwyn Co. The sale price was $50,000 and he contends that $5,000 is a fair commission...