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Numerous Authors They Assemble at a Cinema Congress−and Talk At the International Congress of Motion Picture Arts (in Manhattan) one saw numerous authors, some serious, some gay. Here was Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, a serious stately lady, clad in gray and black. I was tempted to ask her where she obtained her information on Yale displayed in The Courage of the Commonplace; but didn't quite dare. W. B. Maxwell, whose The Day's Journey is a really fine recent English novel, was the British delegate. He is tall, dignified, with a much lined face...

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