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The Author. Versatile but able, Gilbert Vivian Seldes is the only man who has ever contributed steadily and simultaneously to both the (late) Dial and the Saturday Evening Post, the (late) Manhattan Evening Graphic and the New Republic. He has been music critic, military expert, war correspondent, editorial writer & foreign correspondent (Philadelphia Public Ledgers), political correspondent (L'Echo de Paris), associate editor (Collier's), managing editor (The Dial). contributing editor (The New Republic), dramatic critic (Manhattan Evening Graphic). At present he writes a Hearst-syndicated colyum. His adaptation of Aristophanes' Lysistrata was a 1930 box-office success. Harvard-man (1914), married (to Alice Walhams Hall), with two children, he lives quietly in Manhattan, shuns publicity, misses few tricks.
Other books: The Seven Lively Arts, The Stammering Century, The Wings of the Eagle, The Future of Drinking; under the pseudonym of "Foster Johns," two mystery novels: The Victory Murders, The Square Emerald.