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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anyone not a native of New York, it would seem that city would be more than willing to pass on to other places news items which do not reflect creditably on itself, but it is not so. New York has a singular and inordinate appetite for self-advertising, preferably of an unfavorable sort, and evidently Brooklyn has become infected with the virus. The city of Walt Whitman and Henry Ward Beecher, not content with being known as the terminus of the subway, wants its own little murders duly credited to Brooklyn. A journalistic plot to make Brooklyn into an obscure...
...scene in Antony and Cleopatra. . She screams she can't go on, and then does. In the last act, her husband turns out to be unfaithful. She leaves for England-a great actress but a failure in the home. All this is told very seriously, and with a singular tedium. Gilbert W. Gabriel-"Doused in trite, puff-cheeked sentiments, only now and then cured by humor." Alexander Woollcott - "A gaudy chromo, evidently selected because it provided so many emotional crises in which to exhibit the sundry talents of Miss Florence Reed." Heywood Broun-"I am not at all sure...
...keen blue eyes flash, and he seemed entirely absorbed in his speaking. His words poured out rapidly, and he fairly stammered in his eagerness to express his ideas. He frowned as he talked, yet at times he paused and smiled. And I noted for the first time, his singular yet winning expression as his short upper lip bared his teeth...
Significant in modern American literature is the reappearance of the South to dispute with the uncouth West and the effete East the attentions of aspiring writers. Two recent works in different fields of literature which have won prizes in competition with hundreds of others, have both dealt, by singular coincidence, with the provincial picture-esqueness of Southern life. In "Hell-Bent Fer Heaven", the Pulitzer prize play for last year, Hatcher Hughes presented a light comedy in a remarkable setting among Southern mountaineers. In the November issue of "The Forum" is published that magazine's prize short story...
...final chapter, "Experiences in America," obviously transcribed from a careful diary, "gives greetings" to Tolley's U. S. friends and, though somewhat overspattered with the first person singular, should help the book sell. Tolley's countrymen may feel that this chapter smacks of the alibi for its author's repeated failures abroad; the U. S. friends will find its humor well-meant but embarrassingly weak...