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...Thornton Wilder, novelist (The Bridge of San Luis Rey) Litt.D...
...Wurts, like one of the social dragonesses in The Cabala, famed novel by Thornton Niven Wilder, is a rich, enigmatic fragment in the age-old mosaic of Roman society. Tremendously dim, tremendously "important," she lives in the via dei Funari; the twisted "Street of the Rope Makers," on a floor of the Palazzo Mattei. Two other floors are occupied respectively by Principe Lodovico Mattei, himself, and by fidgety but obsequious Don Guido Antici-Mattei, a relation who is probably poor but, like rich Mrs. Wurts, tremendously dim, tremendously important to the Wurts Cabala...
...Author Thornton Wilder's The Woman of Andros (TIME, Feb. 24) was not submitted to any book club, by request of the author...
...Henry Thornton, president of Canadian National Railways, attending a dinner at Manhattan's University of Pennsylvania Club, saw his name inscribed on the Guggenheim Honor Cup which records the names of distinguished graduates. A member of the class of 1894, he played on the Pennsylvania champion football team of that year...
...written, perhaps never will be. But Author Dos Passos has made a bold bid for it. Certainly no U. S. novel has ever been more comprehensive than The 42nd Parallel, none has ever given a broader, more sweeping view of the whole country. At the opposite pole from Author Thornton Niven Wilder (TIME, Feb. 24) who writes neat, classical tales of other lands. Author Dos Passos unwinds a rapid, impressionistic, five-reel cinema of his own U. S., from 1900 to the War. Of more ambitious scope tha Cineman David Wark Griffith's The Birth of a Nation...