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Turns About Town

Robert Cortes Holliday (1880 - 1947)

Robert Cortes Holliday was an early 20th century essayist, editor, and librarian. Writer Christopher Morley said that he "has the genuine gift of the personal essay, mellow, fluent, and pleasantly eccentric." Most of these pleasant pieces appeared originally in various American newspapers and magazines. - Summary by Tom Penn

Genre(s): Satire, *Non-fiction

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	The Hotel Guest	Tom Penn	00:12:36
Play 02	A Humorist Misfits at a Murder Trial	Tom Penn	00:18:15
Play 03	Queer Thing, Bout Undertakers Shops	Tom Penn	00:13:24
Play 04	The Haircut that Went to My Head	Tom Penn	00:12:56
Play 05	Seeing Mr. Chesterton	Tom Penn	00:21:50
Play 06	When is a Great City a Small Village?	Tom Penn	00:13:20
Play 07	The Unusualness of Parisian Philadelphia	Tom Penn	00:13:10
Play 08	Our Last Social Engagement as a Fine Art	Tom Penn	00:12:43
Play 09	Writing in Rooms	Tom Penn	00:23:44
Play 10	Taking the Air in San Francisco	Tom Penn	00:13:13
Play 11	Bidding Mr. Chesterton Good-Bye	Tom Penn	00:24:20
Play 12	No System at all to the Human System	Tom Penn	00:13:20
Play 13	Seeing the Situations Wanted Scene	Tom Penn	00:17:02
Play 14	Literary Lives	Tom Penn	00:16:37
Play 15	So Very Theatrical	Tom Penn	00:12:35
Play 16	Our Steeplejack of the Seven Arts	Tom Penn	00:19:54
Play 17	Former Tenant of His Room	Tom Penn	00:11:41
Play 18	Only She Was There	Tom Penn	00:16:22
Play 19	A Humorists Note-Book	Tom Penn	00:16:24
Play 20	Including Studies of Traffic Cops	Tom Penn	00:11:05
Play 21	Three Words about Literature	Tom Penn	00:07:41
Play 22	Recollections of Landladies	Tom Penn	00:21:31
Play 23	An Idiosyncrasy	Tom Penn	00:24:44
Play 24	The Sexless Camera	Tom Penn	00:07:02
Play 25	I Know an Editor	Tom Penn	00:07:35
Play 26	A Dip into the Underworld	Tom Penn	00:13:23
Play 27	Nosing Round Washington	Tom Penn	00:55:06
Play 28	Fame: A Story of American Literature, Part 1	Tom Penn	00:28:20
Play 29	Fame: A Story of American Literature, Part 2	Tom Penn	00:27:51

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