Two current Broadway dramatic successes will be published in book form by Random House this week. They are Melvin Levy’s Group Theatre play, “Gold Eagle Guy,” and S. N. Behrman’s Theatre Guild comedy, “Rain From Heaven.” Next month the same publishers will add J. M. Synge’s “Playboy of the Western World” to their list.
Gertrude Stein will deliver a series of lectures at the University of Chicago in March and will then go to San Francisco to be the guest of Gertrude Atherton for several days. Miss Stein and her companion, Alice B. Toklas, plan to return to France in the Spring. All of Miss Stein’s American lectures will be published in one volume by Random House in March.
OFFER $100 FOR IDEA
E. P. Dutton and Company announce a $100 prize to book critics for the best letter containing suggestions and ideas for the presentation and promotion of any book to be published by them between January 1 and June 1, 1935. All names will be held in confidence unless permission is given.
BRINIG COMPLETES BOOK
Myron Brinig has completed his new novel, “Michael Singermann.”
HAMMOND’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The long-awaited autobiography of John Hays Hammond, which Farrar and Rinehart are bringing out, will be published on Mr. Hammond’s eightieth birthday, March 29.
OLGA KNOPF’S BOOK
Olga Knopf, the Viennese psychiatrist and follower of Alfred Adler, will have her book, “Women On Their Own,” published by Little, Brown and Company on March 1.
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