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Professor Hillyer is the author of eight volumes of poetry and is a contributor to many periodicals. For two years, he was president of the New England Poetry Club. Governor Roosevelt, in addition to being Phi Bet Kappa orator, will serve as chief marshal of his class at its twenty-fifth reunion...
...Soglow ambitions are modest. He confines himself to vignettes. Sometimes they are smokily morbid, but the artist is more often impelled to bitter Hogarthian humor. As a regular contributor to the New Masses, he was (in the March issue) allowed to lampoon the staff of that earnest, proletarian monthly as a ridiculous, sour and impoverished quartet, weary of life and thought. O. Soglow is a signature frequently seen also in the blithely capitalistic New Yorker. There he is the Harpo Marx of art, maintaining a pungent silence with untitled comic strip exercises in pantomime, often verging on the vulgar. Recently...
ACTION-C. E. Montague-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Director and constant contributor to the Manchester Guardian, the late C. E. Montague is better known in this country for his mercurial newspaper idyll, A Hind Let Loose; for his satire on Englishmen at war, Right Off the Map and for the War-novel Rough Justice. In spite of his admixture of Irish blood, his philosophy is essentially, exceedingly English. To play the game, to accept one's fate and carry on-these are the "fiery particles" that compose the unvarying pattern of his thought. The present volume of posthumously published short...
Sirs: As you have probably read, a constitutional amendment has been proposed to keep preachers from holding office in Texas. There is probably the greatest wave of resentment against the preachers ever known in the Bible Belt as Mencken calls it. Woman suffrage has been a contributor to this wave of resentment. Many preachers have been accused of going behind a man and influencing his wife to vote contrary to her husband's wishes. A few more elections like the last one and the church will almost cease to function in the South...
...Chevalier costume?un smoking (dinner jacket) and straw hat ? is a vestigial remnant of the days before the War when, as Guest Contributor William Bolitho of the New York World says: "Young men dressed like this in the evenings and had fun. . . . Look at Chevalier's queer straw hat with the same shiver as you see the Cap of Liberty stuck up in Tammany Hall, or the Crown of England. There is human history...