Word: wister
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When on the eve of its public sale Macmillan Co. last month abruptly recalled from all book dealers Roosevelt, The Story of a, Friendship, by Owen Wister, (TIME, June 23) book reviewers were puzzled, historians baffled, as to what was the matter with the book. The publishers spoke vaguely of "certain corrections'' it was "necessary" to make but declined to explain what grave thing was forcing them to expend perhaps $100,000 on repaging, replating, reprinting, rebinding. Author Wister was in Europe. His family referred to "anonymous protests...
...conclusion was that the family or friends of Woodrow Wilson had objected to some of the things Mr. Wister quoted Theodore Roosevelt as saying about the War President. But Ray Stannard Baker, Wilson friend and biographer, announced that Mrs. Wilson's policy was "to pay no attention to critical comments or verbal abuse of her husband...
...Menaechmi" is the first Latin play to be presented for public performance by the club, which has been at work on the production since last March, and is the fourth classical play to be given in the original language at Harvard. "Oedipus Tyrannus" was presented in 1881 with Owen Wister '82 in the cast and G. L. Kittredge '81 prompter. Thirteen years later the "Phormio" of Terence was given, with (now) Professor E. K. Rand '94 taking the leading role. The presentation of the "Agamemnon" in the Soldiers Field Stadium in 1906 was a brilliant spectacle...
...Virginian (Paramount). High on any list of famed moments in U. S. literature and drama is that scene in which Owen Wister's hero, insulted by an epithet* which this cinema clearly records, draws himself up and says with flashing eye: "When you call me that, smile." If you have not read the book or seen one of the plays or pictures made from it for some time you will be surprised to find that The Virginian would be a typical western except that it is less energetic and far better bred than most westerns-a nice library arrangement...
...Wister's text...