Word: wren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Frederick Abbot Stokes, 82, founder (1881) and president (since 1890) of Frederick A. Stokes Co. (book publishers); after long illness; in Manhattan. Some of the authors his firm introduced: James Branch Cabell, Louis Bromfield, Percival Christopher Wren...
...blue sapphire, a memory of childhood, and a "gallant Gesture,"--these are the elements which Percival Wren molded into a chivalric romance set in his own time, the dying days of the Victorian era. Hs novel forms such exciting dramatic material that countless actors of stage and screen have tried their hand at it. Latest are Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, and Robert Preston as the "Beau Geste" trio...
...sergeant this time a Russian in the French Foreign Legion, which gives Brian Donlevy a chance to turn in one of the best performances of his career. There's the funeral pyre and the garrison of corpses,--all the dramatic and vivid scenes which can be wrung out of Wren's story...
Died. John Vaughan Apthorp, 95, oldest Harvard alumnus (1865); in Concord, Mass. His successor: Thomas Wren Ward (1866), 95 on October...
...Birds are the only restraining force on these harmful pests, for noxious insects form their main diet. Ninety-eight per cent of the wren's meals are these dangerous caterpillars, and thus they are reduced to a harmless minimum...