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John V. A. Weaver, the spry author of In American, Finders, etc., has now vanished to Florida where, having encased his slender form in a bathing suit, he is doubtless polishing the surface of his play?a play written, I hear, in "the American language...
Mark Kent, Jill Middleton, and Joseph Leo do the best acting of the evening. Walter Gilbert, as Ben, is rather too polished. He is not at his best as a man from the wide open spaces, who shows his virility by wearing a rather good suit, the trousers of which he has tucked into shiny new overshoes...
Some time ago the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, a Hugo Stinnes journal, accused the Vossische Zeitung, a Berlin daily of Socialist views, of "being too friendly to France." Dr. Ullstein, Socialist publisher, and George Bernhard, editor-in-chief, decided to bring a libel suit against the Allgemeine Zeitung. The action promised to prove a big sensation in the Berlin newspaper world, but Hugo Stinnes discreetly ordered his paper to print the following apology...
...other evening at a dancing club a young man in a gray suit, soft shirt, loosely tied scarf, shook his tousled yellow hair engagingly, introduced me to the beautiful lady with whom he was dancing and sat down. They were Mr. and Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Scott seems to have changed not one whit from the first time I met him at Princeton, when he was an eager undergraduate bent upon becoming a great author. He is still eager. He is still bent upon becoming a great author. He is at work now on a novel which his wife...
...Yesterday young Sidis was wearing a cheap brown suit, much too tight for his fleshy frame. He had not been shaved; his reddish mustache was a ragged fringe that appeared to have been whacked off with a pair of manicure scissors. His mop of mouse-colored hair was in need of trimming. His necktie was in a hard knot that did not come within inches of his collar...