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Rose Milligan, a barmaid in Louth, Ireland, whose nom de plume on the ticket was "My Pub Now" because she had always wanted to own a saloon. She said that with her $50,000 she would...
Federal Judge John M. Woolsey put an end to the $2,250,000 suit for plagiarism brought by Authoress Gladys Adelina Selma Lewis ("Georges Lewys") against Playwright Eugene O'Neill, his pub lishers and the Theatre Guild. Miss Lewis had charged that in O'Neill's Strange In terlude the motif of "selective parent hood" was stolen from her privately printed book The Temple of Pallas-Athenae, which pictured a temple in Paris at which perfect young males are - in Judge Woolsey's words - "kept at stud as professional fathers." Playwright O'Neill...
...Renascence and Other Poems, The King's Henchman, The Buck in the Snow), left "Steepletop," her home at Austerlitz, N. Y., to have some fun in Manhattan. She described her fun to the press: "Staying out until seven o'clock in the morning. It's just a round of 'pub-crawling.' Don't you like that word? I wish I had invented...
...friends, their bons mots and their ridiculous but engaging selfimportance. The scatter-brained youth meets a girl on the train who falls in love with him. He re-turns to her after adventures in Tin Pan Alley. These include advances made by the cold-hearted mistress of a music pub- lisher, committing malapropisms which cause him to be the butt of Broadway tune-sharpers. Finally he gets $2.500 for a song, because he has given the publisher a good excuse for getting rid of his girl. Jack Oakie makes the talkie almost as funny as the play by Ring Lardner...
...favorable attention; Rebecca might have sold it but always refused. Poor and usually wageless, she "lived on bread and lived for gin." When she discovered that her untidy flowers were worth money she grew them for all she was worth, tottered home with many a bottle from the village pub. One winter night she got drunk in the graveyard and froze to death. Her cottage became an arty teashop, which was of course a failure...