Evening star., 1934-05-08

reer in the United States, to which
he came in 1893.
He Joined the Times staff In 1905
as night city editor, and later was
named as assistant managing editor.
From January, 1926, until the enc
of 1881 he was acting managing
editor.
John E. Elliott of the New York
Herald Tribune and Harry Carr OF
the Los Angeles Times won honor
able mention for this award, Elliott
for his dispatches from Germany
and Carr for his stories from Aus
tralia, Japan, China, the Philippines
and Europe.
Second Prize for Duffy.
1t was the second Pulitzer award
for Edmund Duffy, Baltimore Sun
cartoonist. He had received the prize
for the best cartoon of 1880.
The 1888 cartoon, California
Points With Pride-!', was based
On the lynching at San Jose OF two
kidnapers. 1t was for covering the
same event that a reporter won an
other Pulitzer award.
A rapid worker, Duffy usually COM
| pletes his daily cartoon in an hour
or Jess, but he is an untiring reader
and from this broad information OBJ
tains the ideas which he depicts.
He was born in Jersey City, N. j..
| 35 years ago, and studied art in New
York and Paris. He joined the Sun
staff in 1924.
| Clayton Hamilton, Walter Pritchard
Eaton and Austin Strong were the
three members of the drama jury
members of the history jury were
Charles D. Hazen. Burton j. Hendrick
| and M. A. DeWolfe Howe.
/ The university announced that in
both cases the "jurieS understood that
! they were retained in an advisory
capacity and consequently do not
/ question the right of the advisory
board of the School of Journalism to
exercise their own judgment in max
ing the award"
Quit Play to Write.
Kingsley, the author Of Men in
White" is a 27-year actor who
quit his minor part in a melodrama
to write a play.
! Technical knowledge of doctors and
their lives. Kingsley decided, was nee
! eSsary if he was to write successful
play about them With the aid of a
friend he lived in a hospital, slept in
! the internes' quarters, ate with them
and listened with care to the profess
sional and non-profeSSional discussions
! The result was his play, which de-
picts the human and personal side OF
the physicians, and their struggle be-
| tween the pleasures of private life and
devotion to their calling.
For seven months the play has beer
an outstanding Broadway success, and
also has been made into movie. II
/ was produced by the Group Theater
and physicians have praised it as being
virtually perfect in its technical detail
Her First Novel.
Caroline Miller's first novel. Lamb
in His Bosom won for her the
Pulitzer award for the best novel.
Mrs. Miller is 30. the mother OF
three sons. Her husband is William
/ D. Miller, who was her English teacher
in high school. She is a native OF
Georgia and lives there now at Baxley
She drew freely from the history OF
her own family for material she used
in Lamb in His Bosom a novel laid
in early-day Georgia. 1t is couched
in simple prose that paints detailed
picture of that era and country.
| Mrs. Miller's husband has been i'll
much Of the time during the last few
years, but taking care Of him. her
home and her sons did not stop her
from writing.
She is busy on another novel. happy
that her efforts have lifted some OF
the economic burdens that faced the
family. Her husband admits he is
quite proud of his one-time English
student
A resident of England for several
years, Herbert Agar, whose book, The
Peoples Choice" won the history
prize, now is an attache of the Amer
ican embassy in London. 1t was his