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Stephen Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster" won the Saturday Evening Post short story contest a couple of years ago. Now the whimsical story of Faust in New Hampshire has been made into a movie. "All That Money Can Buy" seems well on its way to winning an equally conspicuous niche in moviedom's hall of fame...
Among members of the committee sponsoring the convention are: William Agar, Roger Baldwin '05, Ulric Bell, Stephen Vincent Benet, Bruce Bliven, Van Wyck Brooks '08, David Dubinsky, Clark Eichelberger, Hon. Thomas H. Eliot '28, John Farrar, Carl J. Friedrich Professor of Government, Harry D. Gideonse, Hans Kohn, Max Lerner, Francis E. McMahon, William A. Neilson '99, Rex Stout, Herbert Bayard Swope, Sr., and Henry P. Van Dusen...
This synthetic U.S. folk tale, a triumphant Yankee version of Faust, was invented by Poet Stephen Vincent Benet (in a short story, The Demi and Daniel Webster). A ticklish job for adaptation to the screen, it has been handled with skill and good humor by Producer-Director William Dieterle (The Story of Louis Pasteur). All That Money Can Buy is definitely superior cinema...
Married. Poet-Critic William Rose Benet, 55, onetime husband of the late Poet Elinor Wylie; and Marjorie Flack, 43, children's writer and illustrator; he, for the fourth time; in Newtown, Conn. His marriage to Actress Lora Baxter ended in divorce...
Stephen Vincent Benet, the noted American poet and writer, will give a reading of his own poems at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon in Emerson Hall. The reading is under the suspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund...