Word: write
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Hopkins, disgruntled, promised to "blow the lid off Cleveland politics" before going to Europe to write on City Management...
Louis Bromfield, novelist (The Green Bay Tree, Pulitzer Prize-winning Early Autumn), with his wife, two children, maid and a visiting Englishman, went to California to write for the audible cinema. Said he: "There is intelligence and talent gathering in Hollywood as it never gathered there before. It is most hopeful, most interesting. . . . I am fed up with Europe. It gives me a stomachache. I got tired of it, bored with...
This book tells how to write for the talkies, incidentally plots out the talkies' field, tells some of their difficulties, predicts some of their triumphs. Say Authors Pitkin & Marston: "The talkie is a new art. It is as distinct from the silent picture as the silent picture is distinct from a stage play." Its limitations are definite. "[The successful talkie] must avoid all explanations, printed or spoken, which involve words beyond the comprehension of an ordinary ten-year-old child...
...Tully does not like to be called hard-boiled himself, but the people he writes about are not ladies' men. He continues to write about the hoboes he knew when he was one of them because he thinks it is good for men to know all their brothers and because not one writer in a hundred knows the idiom that he does...
...Author. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a doctor who took to writing humorous pieces for Moscow journals to help defray the expenses of his unwieldy household. A bachelor, he had a larger family than many a paterfamilias, and they did their best to eat him out of house and home. When critics began to take his funny stories seriously, no one was more amused and surprised than Dr. Chekhov. When he started to write plays (Ivanov, Uncle Vanya, The Sea Gull, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard} he got to know the members of Stanislavsky's famed Moscow...