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...March 15th, a lot of U. S. poets will try to translate that symbol into verse. Their incentive: a $1,000 first prize (and five additional prizes of $100 each) offered by the Academy of American Poets for the Fair's Official Poem. Judges: William Rose Benet, Louis Untermeyer, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. For U. S. poets, the first prize is big money indeed-twice their average yearly earnings, about three times Poet Laureate John Masefield's yearly pay, equaled only once before, when Harriet Monroe, late editor of Poetry, wangled $1,000 for her official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: $1,000 Poem | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Contrasting the Crime Club's late Edgar Wallace with the Saturday Evening Post's Stephen Vincent Benet, "Dangerous To Know" and "Love, Honor, and Behave" constitute an average double bill. Mr. Wallace's effort is by far the better, and to his good, albeit depressing, story is added fine performances by Akim Tamiroff and Anna May Wong--the music-loving gangster and his "hostess," respectively. But "Love, Honor, and Behave" fails completely to be either an amusing musicale or a sound social drama, succeeding only in convincing a spineless Yale graduate (Wayne Morris) that he should spank his wife (Priscilla...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: * The Moviegoer * | 3/18/1938 | See Source »

...Seventies"), many newspaper rhymesters, Eliot, Lenin, Pound. Marx ("The only part of the so-called national wealth that actually enters into the collective possessions of modern peoples is their national debt"). Generous to his colleagues on The Saturday Review of Literature, he gives two pages to William Rose Benet, almost three pages to Stephen Vincent Benet, a half-page each to Editor Bernard De Voto and ex-Editor Henry Seidel Canby, a page to himself. The Morley Bartlett includes enough contemporary wisecracks. ephemeral fragments of minor living poets, to make other future revisions seem likely, but it shows that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Morley's Revisions | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...HENRY MEMORIAL AWARD PRIZE STORIES OF 1937-Edited by Harry Hansen-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Collection of 21 stories, notable for Stephen Vincent Benet's modern folk tale, The Devil and Daniel Webster (first prize), for Robert Coates's violent story, The Fury (third prize), for first-rate examples of the work of William March, Jesse Stuart, Robert Penn Warren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...countered with "streamline Shakespeare" by John Barrymore and his wife Elaine Barrie, and prepared to put one over on CBS with "original" radio plays by Maxwell Anderson and Stephen Vincent Benet. Playwright Anderson's The Feast of Ortolans, an historical drama about a party of 18th Century French intellectuals who haggle about the Revolution right up to the moment the Revolution walks in the door, is to be given next month. Last week Poet Benet's show, an operetta based on Washington Irving's A Legend of Sleepy Hollow, had its radio premiere over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Benet from the Blue | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

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