This Ageless Soul
From 1938: Russell Maloney’s Profile of Orson Welles, then a twenty-three-year-old wunderkind of New York theatre.
BOOKS review of Carl Van Doren’s biography of Benjamin Franklin and Richard Hughes’s “In Hazard.”
REPORTER AT LARGE about Roycroft, Elbert Hubbard's community. History of the Philistine, a Periodical of Protest a truculent monthly, the product of …
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