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...French literature, looks like a lean and sinister clown, loves mystery, theatrics. Bald, he often wears a skullcap, a shawl over his shoulders. His early books were such immediate failures he thought seriously of abandoning writing. At 40 (he is now 61) he learned English and translated Shakespeare, Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman into French. Gide's chief claim to notoriety is his sympathetic exposition of homosexuality. His consuming curiosity once nearly cost him his life when he followed an African native marriage procession into the forbidden chamber. Some of his (translated) books: Strait Is the Gate, The Counterfeiters...
...Melody of Chaos" is a very apt title for this attempt to interpret the works of Conrad Aiken and certain of his associates in the psychoanalytical schools of writing. A good portion of the book is concerned with exposing the essential chaotic nature of the material with which these writers are working, and most of the rest is given over to an evaluation of Aiken's poetry in terms of this burrowing about at the hidden roots of action...
...Conrad Aiken's poetry with which the book is chiefly concerned has just this vague, rather exasperating indefiniteness. Mr. Peterson seeks to justify this and the often baffling images invoked by the poet as true to the dim and distorted mirrors of man's mind on which are recorded the images of external objects. One cannot quarrel with the author's competent interpretation of Alken's method, but there is a difference of opinion as to the value of this type compared to the behavioristic mode of writing in which the actions of a character are described and explained from...
...wife, who loves him and attempts to regenerate him again and again, and his friend, who loves his wife but also does his best to restore domestic happiness, are the other two main characters of the story. The friend is played by Gustav Diessel, an actor strongly reminiscent of Conrad Veidt, and a worthy rival of the German player. On the whole, the acting is extremely well done, especially so since all the parts are extremely difficult...
William Fausett Bruce '29; Grant Dooks Darker 3G.; Dana Bennett Durand '25; Thomas Penberthy Fry gr. L.; Sarell Everett Gleason, Jr. '27; Carl William Hagge 4G.; Graham Woodward Parker 2G.B.; William Tuthill Parry 3G.; George Barnard Raser '25; Max Adams Shepard '28; Conrad Payling Wright...