Walter S. Masterman

	Walter S. Masterman Walter (Sydney) Masterman (19 December 1876 – 16 May 1946) was an English author of mystery, fantasy, horror and science fiction. Biography Masterman was born in Wimbledon, London on 19 December 1876, the son of Thomas William Masterman. Initially educated at Tonbridge School and Weymouth College, he entered Christ's College, Cambridge in 1897, where he was a football blue. Played football with his brother H W Masterman for amongst others Tunbridge Wells and is referred to in the "History of the Football Association" published in 1953 for an article he wrote in 1911 on the dispute between the Amateur Football Association and the Football Association. Served as a lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion Welsh Regiment in the Second Boer War, 1900–02; was made a captain in 1901. He was the joint headmaster of Horsmonden School, Kent, 1903-05. Also served in the Great War as a Major with the Welsh Regiment (1914–19). Death Walter S. Masterman died in Brighton on 16 May 1946. Biblio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Wimbledon, London Wimbledon () is a district and town of Southwest London, England, southwest of the centre of London at Charing Cross; it is the main commercial centre of the London Borough of Merton. Wimbledon had a population of 68,187 in 2011 which includes the electoral wards of Abbey, Dundonald, Hillside, Trinity, Village, Raynes Park and Wimbledon Park. It is home to the Wimbledon Championships and New Wimbledon Theatre, and contains Wimbledon Common, one of the largest areas of common land in London. The residential and retail area is split into two sections known as the "village" and the "town", with the High Street being the rebuilding of the original medieval village, and the "town" having first developed gradually after the building of the railway station in 1838. Wimbledon has been inhabited since at least the Iron Age when the hill fort on Wimbledon Common is thought to have been constructed. In 1086 when the Domesday Book was compiled, Wimbledon was part of the manor of Mortla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1927 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1927. Events January – The Books Kinokuniya (紀伊國屋書店) bookstore business is established in Tokyo. February 4 – Gertrude Stein is honored by the ''Académie des femmes'', an informal gathering for woman writers, founded by the expatriate American Natalie Clifford Barney starts at her Paris '' salon''. Others honored include Colette, Anna Wickham, Rachilde, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and posthumously, Renée Vivien. * February 24 – The new John Golden Theatre ''(Theatre Masque)'' opens in New York City at 252 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown Manhattan. May 5 – Virginia Woolf's stream of consciousness novel ''To the Lighthouse'' is published by Hogarth Press in London. A second impression follows in June. It is seen as a landmark of high modernism, June 29 – T. S. Eliot, hitherto Unitarian, is baptised into the Church of England at Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1940 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1940. Events January – The English literary magazine ''Horizon'' first appears in London, with Cyril Connolly, Peter Watson and Stephen Spender contributing. February – The Canadian writer Robertson Davies leaves the Old Vic repertory company in the U.K. * March 11 – Ed Ricketts, John Steinbeck and six others leave Monterey for the Gulf of California on a marine invertebrate collecting expedition. April – Máirtín Ó Cadhain is interned by the Irish government at Curragh Camp, as a member of the Irish Republican Army. May 14 – The Battle of the Netherlands ends with the surrender of the main Dutch forces to Nazi German invaders. This evening, the gay Dutch Jewish writer Jacob Hiegentlich takes poison, dying four days later aged 33. June 5 – The English novelist J. B. Priestley broadcasts his first Sunday evening radio ''Postscript'', "An excursion to hell", on the BBC H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1939 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1939. Events Early – The Pocket Books mass-market paperback imprint is launched in the United States. The first of the nationally distributed titles is James Hilton's ''Lost Horizon''. January American literary magazine ''The Kenyon Review'' is founded and edited by John Crowe Ransom. The American pulp science fiction magazine ''Startling Stories'' appears, edited by Mort Weisinger. It includes '' The Black Flame'' by Stanley G. Weinbaum as lead novel. Eando Binder's story "I, Robot" appears in the U.S. science fiction magazine ''Amazing Stories''. ''The Criterion'', a British literary quarterly, is founded and edited by T. S. Eliot. ** W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood set sail from England for the United States. January/February – '' Poetry London: a Bi-Monthly of Modern Verse and Criticism'', founded and edited by Tambimuttu (with Dylan Thomas and others), is first published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1938 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1938. Events January The John Dos Passos trilogy '' U.S.A.'' is published, containing his novels '' The 42nd Parallel'' (1930), ''1919'' (1932), and '' The Big Money'' (1936). Samuel Beckett is stabbed in the chest in Paris and nearly killed. February 21 – The gay American writer and composer Paul Bowles marries the lesbian American writer Jane Auer at a Reformed Church in Manhattan. March 7 – Samuel Beckett's first completed novel ''Murphy'' is published in London. July 11 – The first live drama adaptation in Orson Welles' ''The Mercury Theatre on the Air'' series on CBS Radio in the United States is broadcast: Bram Stoker's ''Dracula''. August – Muslims protest in London against passages they see as disrespectful to their religion in H. G. Wells' '' A Short History of the World'' (1922). September 13 – The first production in Britain of a play by Bertolt Brecht, '' Mrs Carrar' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1937 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1937. Events January 9 – The first issue of ''Look'' magazine goes on sale in the United States. January 19 – BBC Television broadcasts ''The Underground Murder Mystery'' by J. Bissell Thomas from London, the first play to be written for television. February 6 – John Steinbeck's novella of the Great Depression, '' Of Mice and Men'', appears in the United States. April – The Irish writers Elizabeth Bowen and Seán Ó Faoláin first meet, in London. * May 14 – BBC Television broadcasts a 30-minute excerpt of '' Twelfth Night'', the first known television broadcast of a Shakespeare piece. The cast includes Peggy Ashcroft and Greer Garson. * May 21 – Penguin Books in the U.K. launches Pelican Books, a sixpenny paperback non-fiction imprint, with a two-volume edition of George Bernard Shaw's '' The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism''. June The British scie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1936 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1936. Events January 8 – Jewish booksellers throughout Nazi Germany are deprived of their Reich Publications Chamber membership cards, without which no one can sell books. May – The Greek poet and Communist activist Yiannis Ritsos is inspired to write his poem ''Epitaphios'' by a photograph of a dead protester at a massive tobacco workers' demonstration in Thessaloniki. It is published soon after. In August, the right-wing dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas comes to power in Greece and copies are burned publicly at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens. May 16– 17 – About 30 left-wing writers of the Second Polish Republic gather at the Lviv Anti-Fascist Congress of Cultural Workers. August 3 – George Heywood Hill establishes the Heywood Hill bookshop in London's Mayfair. * August 18 – The 38-year-old Spanish dramatist, Federico García Lorca, is arrested by Francoist militia durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1935 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1935. Events January – The first published portions of Yasunari Kawabata's novel '' Snow Country'' (雪国, ''Yukiguni'') appear as standalone stories in Japanese literature. March 20 – The London publisher Boriswood pleads guilty and is fined in Manchester's Assize Court for publishing an "obscene" book, a 1934 cheap edition of James Hanley's 1931 novel ''Boy''. * May 13 – T. E. Lawrence, having left the British Royal Air Force in March, has an accident with his Brough Superior motorcycle while returning to his cottage at Clouds Hill, England, after posting books to a friend, A. E. "Jock" Chambers, and sending a telegram inviting the novelist Henry Williamson to lunch. He dies six days later. On July 29 his '' Seven Pillars of Wisdom'' is first published in an edition for general circulation. June 15 * W. H. Auden concludes a marriage of convenience with Erika Mann. T. S. Eliot's ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1934 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1934. Events * January 7 – The first ''Flash Gordon'' comic strip is created and illustrated by Alex Raymond and published in the United States. * January 25 – James Joyce's novel '' Ulysses'', after a December acquittal (upheld on appeal in February) in ''United States v. One Book Called Ulysses'', is first published in an authorized edition in the Anglophone world by Random House of New York City. It has 12,000 advance sales. January – B. Traven's novel ''The Death Ship'' (1926) first appears in English. February – Stefan Zweig flees Austria and settles in London. * February 6 – The February 6 riots in France, partly provoked by a performance of Shakespeare's ''Coriolanus'' by the Comédie-Française, will become the focus of a cult in the works of far-right authors, notably ''Death on Credit'' by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1936) and ''Gilles'' by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1939). Also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Lewis Patrick Greene Lewis Patrick Greene (1891–1971), who usually wrote under the name L. Patrick Greene, was an English writer of adventure stories. Greene was born in England. He spent several years in Rhodesia working as a civil servant, before a back injury caused him to be deemed medically unfit for service and discharged. Penzler,Otto,''The Big Book of Adventure Stories. Vintage, 2011, (p.685) By 1913, Greene had emigrated to the US and became an American citizen settling in Boston. Writing career In 1918, Greene began to write fiction based on his experiences for the pulp magazines. Initially, his main American market was ''Adventure'' magazine. For ''Adventure'', Greene created his most famous character, the "Major", the alias of English adventurer Aubrey St. John Major. An eccentric Englishman whose foppish behaviour disguised a clever and heroic character, the Major, aided by his Khoikhoi friend Jim, worked as an illicit diamond buyer, illegally trading diamonds in South Africa. Despite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1932 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1932. Events March – Captain W. E. Johns' character Biggles (James Bigglesworth) is introduced as an English World War I pilot in the short story "The White Fokker", in the first, April issue of ''Popular Flying'' magazine, edited by Johns. The first Biggles collection, ''The Camels Are Coming'', ensues in April. April 23 – To mark Shakespeare's birthday: The Royal Shakespeare Company's new theatre opens at Stratford-upon-Avon. The Folger Shakespeare Library opens in Washington, D.C. * April 26 – The 32-year-old American poet Hart Crane, in a state of alcoholic depression, throws himself overboard from the '' Orizaba'' between Mexico and New York; his body is never recovered. May – The first issue appears of the English journal of literary criticism '' Scrutiny: a quarterly review'', edited by F. R. Leavis. June 28 – Alice Hargreaves, the inspiration for ''Alice's Adventure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1931 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1931. Events January 10 – A rare copy of Edgar Allan Poe's '' Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Other Poems'' and first editions of ''The Scarlet Letter'' and '' Moby-Dick'' are stolen from New York Public Library by Samuel Dupree, on behalf of a crooked New York antiquarian book dealer, Harry Gold. January 26 – The play ''Green Grow the Lilacs'' by Cherokee playwright Lynn Riggs, opens on Broadway. It is later adapted as '' Oklahoma!'' by Rodgers and Hammerstein. * March 27 – The English novelist Arnold Bennett dies of typhoid in London, shortly after a visit to Paris, where he drank local water in an attempt to prove it was safe. * April 11 – Gerald Brenan and Gamel Woolsey make a form of marriage in Rome. June 1 – The ''Near v. Minnesota'' case in the Supreme Court of the United States affirms the principle that prior restraint is unconstitutional. July 4 – James Joyce marries his long- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

	Walter S. Masterman Walter (Sydney) Masterman (19 December 1876 – 16 May 1946) was an English author of mystery, fantasy, horror and science fiction. Biography Masterman was born in Wimbledon, London on 19 December 1876, the son of Thomas William Masterman. Initially educated at Tonbridge School and Weymouth College, he entered Christ's College, Cambridge in 1897, where he was a football blue. Played football with his brother H W Masterman for amongst others Tunbridge Wells and is referred to in the "History of the Football Association" published in 1953 for an article he wrote in 1911 on the dispute between the Amateur Football Association and the Football Association. Served as a lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion Welsh Regiment in the Second Boer War, 1900–02; was made a captain in 1901. He was the joint headmaster of Horsmonden School, Kent, 1903-05. Also served in the Great War as a Major with the Welsh Regiment (1914–19). Death Walter S. Masterman died in Brighton on 16 May 1946. Biblio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Wimbledon, London Wimbledon () is a district and town of Southwest London, England, southwest of the centre of London at Charing Cross; it is the main commercial centre of the London Borough of Merton. Wimbledon had a population of 68,187 in 2011 which includes the electoral wards of Abbey, Dundonald, Hillside, Trinity, Village, Raynes Park and Wimbledon Park. It is home to the Wimbledon Championships and New Wimbledon Theatre, and contains Wimbledon Common, one of the largest areas of common land in London. The residential and retail area is split into two sections known as the "village" and the "town", with the High Street being the rebuilding of the original medieval village, and the "town" having first developed gradually after the building of the railway station in 1838. Wimbledon has been inhabited since at least the Iron Age when the hill fort on Wimbledon Common is thought to have been constructed. In 1086 when the Domesday Book was compiled, Wimbledon was part of the manor of Mortla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1927 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1927. Events January – The Books Kinokuniya (紀伊國屋書店) bookstore business is established in Tokyo. February 4 – Gertrude Stein is honored by the ''Académie des femmes'', an informal gathering for woman writers, founded by the expatriate American Natalie Clifford Barney starts at her Paris '' salon''. Others honored include Colette, Anna Wickham, Rachilde, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and posthumously, Renée Vivien. * February 24 – The new John Golden Theatre ''(Theatre Masque)'' opens in New York City at 252 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in midtown Manhattan. May 5 – Virginia Woolf's stream of consciousness novel ''To the Lighthouse'' is published by Hogarth Press in London. A second impression follows in June. It is seen as a landmark of high modernism, June 29 – T. S. Eliot, hitherto Unitarian, is baptised into the Church of England at Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1940 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1940. Events January – The English literary magazine ''Horizon'' first appears in London, with Cyril Connolly, Peter Watson and Stephen Spender contributing. February – The Canadian writer Robertson Davies leaves the Old Vic repertory company in the U.K. * March 11 – Ed Ricketts, John Steinbeck and six others leave Monterey for the Gulf of California on a marine invertebrate collecting expedition. April – Máirtín Ó Cadhain is interned by the Irish government at Curragh Camp, as a member of the Irish Republican Army. May 14 – The Battle of the Netherlands ends with the surrender of the main Dutch forces to Nazi German invaders. This evening, the gay Dutch Jewish writer Jacob Hiegentlich takes poison, dying four days later aged 33. June 5 – The English novelist J. B. Priestley broadcasts his first Sunday evening radio ''Postscript'', "An excursion to hell", on the BBC H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1939 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1939. Events Early – The Pocket Books mass-market paperback imprint is launched in the United States. The first of the nationally distributed titles is James Hilton's ''Lost Horizon''. January American literary magazine ''The Kenyon Review'' is founded and edited by John Crowe Ransom. The American pulp science fiction magazine ''Startling Stories'' appears, edited by Mort Weisinger. It includes '' The Black Flame'' by Stanley G. Weinbaum as lead novel. Eando Binder's story "I, Robot" appears in the U.S. science fiction magazine ''Amazing Stories''. ''The Criterion'', a British literary quarterly, is founded and edited by T. S. Eliot. ** W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood set sail from England for the United States. January/February – '' Poetry London: a Bi-Monthly of Modern Verse and Criticism'', founded and edited by Tambimuttu (with Dylan Thomas and others), is first published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1938 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1938. Events January The John Dos Passos trilogy '' U.S.A.'' is published, containing his novels '' The 42nd Parallel'' (1930), ''1919'' (1932), and '' The Big Money'' (1936). Samuel Beckett is stabbed in the chest in Paris and nearly killed. February 21 – The gay American writer and composer Paul Bowles marries the lesbian American writer Jane Auer at a Reformed Church in Manhattan. March 7 – Samuel Beckett's first completed novel ''Murphy'' is published in London. July 11 – The first live drama adaptation in Orson Welles' ''The Mercury Theatre on the Air'' series on CBS Radio in the United States is broadcast: Bram Stoker's ''Dracula''. August – Muslims protest in London against passages they see as disrespectful to their religion in H. G. Wells' '' A Short History of the World'' (1922). September 13 – The first production in Britain of a play by Bertolt Brecht, '' Mrs Carrar' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1937 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1937. Events January 9 – The first issue of ''Look'' magazine goes on sale in the United States. January 19 – BBC Television broadcasts ''The Underground Murder Mystery'' by J. Bissell Thomas from London, the first play to be written for television. February 6 – John Steinbeck's novella of the Great Depression, '' Of Mice and Men'', appears in the United States. April – The Irish writers Elizabeth Bowen and Seán Ó Faoláin first meet, in London. * May 14 – BBC Television broadcasts a 30-minute excerpt of '' Twelfth Night'', the first known television broadcast of a Shakespeare piece. The cast includes Peggy Ashcroft and Greer Garson. * May 21 – Penguin Books in the U.K. launches Pelican Books, a sixpenny paperback non-fiction imprint, with a two-volume edition of George Bernard Shaw's '' The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism''. June The British scie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1936 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1936. Events January 8 – Jewish booksellers throughout Nazi Germany are deprived of their Reich Publications Chamber membership cards, without which no one can sell books. May – The Greek poet and Communist activist Yiannis Ritsos is inspired to write his poem ''Epitaphios'' by a photograph of a dead protester at a massive tobacco workers' demonstration in Thessaloniki. It is published soon after. In August, the right-wing dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas comes to power in Greece and copies are burned publicly at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens. May 16– 17 – About 30 left-wing writers of the Second Polish Republic gather at the Lviv Anti-Fascist Congress of Cultural Workers. August 3 – George Heywood Hill establishes the Heywood Hill bookshop in London's Mayfair. * August 18 – The 38-year-old Spanish dramatist, Federico García Lorca, is arrested by Francoist militia durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1935 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1935. Events January – The first published portions of Yasunari Kawabata's novel '' Snow Country'' (雪国, ''Yukiguni'') appear as standalone stories in Japanese literature. March 20 – The London publisher Boriswood pleads guilty and is fined in Manchester's Assize Court for publishing an "obscene" book, a 1934 cheap edition of James Hanley's 1931 novel ''Boy''. * May 13 – T. E. Lawrence, having left the British Royal Air Force in March, has an accident with his Brough Superior motorcycle while returning to his cottage at Clouds Hill, England, after posting books to a friend, A. E. "Jock" Chambers, and sending a telegram inviting the novelist Henry Williamson to lunch. He dies six days later. On July 29 his '' Seven Pillars of Wisdom'' is first published in an edition for general circulation. June 15 * W. H. Auden concludes a marriage of convenience with Erika Mann. T. S. Eliot's ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1934 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1934. Events * January 7 – The first ''Flash Gordon'' comic strip is created and illustrated by Alex Raymond and published in the United States. * January 25 – James Joyce's novel '' Ulysses'', after a December acquittal (upheld on appeal in February) in ''United States v. One Book Called Ulysses'', is first published in an authorized edition in the Anglophone world by Random House of New York City. It has 12,000 advance sales. January – B. Traven's novel ''The Death Ship'' (1926) first appears in English. February – Stefan Zweig flees Austria and settles in London. * February 6 – The February 6 riots in France, partly provoked by a performance of Shakespeare's ''Coriolanus'' by the Comédie-Française, will become the focus of a cult in the works of far-right authors, notably ''Death on Credit'' by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1936) and ''Gilles'' by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1939). Also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Lewis Patrick Greene Lewis Patrick Greene (1891–1971), who usually wrote under the name L. Patrick Greene, was an English writer of adventure stories. Greene was born in England. He spent several years in Rhodesia working as a civil servant, before a back injury caused him to be deemed medically unfit for service and discharged. Penzler,Otto,''The Big Book of Adventure Stories. Vintage, 2011, (p.685) By 1913, Greene had emigrated to the US and became an American citizen settling in Boston. Writing career In 1918, Greene began to write fiction based on his experiences for the pulp magazines. Initially, his main American market was ''Adventure'' magazine. For ''Adventure'', Greene created his most famous character, the "Major", the alias of English adventurer Aubrey St. John Major. An eccentric Englishman whose foppish behaviour disguised a clever and heroic character, the Major, aided by his Khoikhoi friend Jim, worked as an illicit diamond buyer, illegally trading diamonds in South Africa. Despite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1932 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1932. Events March – Captain W. E. Johns' character Biggles (James Bigglesworth) is introduced as an English World War I pilot in the short story "The White Fokker", in the first, April issue of ''Popular Flying'' magazine, edited by Johns. The first Biggles collection, ''The Camels Are Coming'', ensues in April. April 23 – To mark Shakespeare's birthday: The Royal Shakespeare Company's new theatre opens at Stratford-upon-Avon. The Folger Shakespeare Library opens in Washington, D.C. * April 26 – The 32-year-old American poet Hart Crane, in a state of alcoholic depression, throws himself overboard from the '' Orizaba'' between Mexico and New York; his body is never recovered. May – The first issue appears of the English journal of literary criticism '' Scrutiny: a quarterly review'', edited by F. R. Leavis. June 28 – Alice Hargreaves, the inspiration for ''Alice's Adventure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1931 In Literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1931. Events January 10 – A rare copy of Edgar Allan Poe's '' Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Other Poems'' and first editions of ''The Scarlet Letter'' and '' Moby-Dick'' are stolen from New York Public Library by Samuel Dupree, on behalf of a crooked New York antiquarian book dealer, Harry Gold. January 26 – The play ''Green Grow the Lilacs'' by Cherokee playwright Lynn Riggs, opens on Broadway. It is later adapted as '' Oklahoma!'' by Rodgers and Hammerstein. * March 27 – The English novelist Arnold Bennett dies of typhoid in London, shortly after a visit to Paris, where he drank local water in an attempt to prove it was safe. * April 11 – Gerald Brenan and Gamel Woolsey make a form of marriage in Rome. June 1 – The ''Near v. Minnesota'' case in the Supreme Court of the United States affirms the principle that prior restraint is unconstitutional. July 4 – James Joyce marries his long- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]