Word: cranes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nursery wall and his mother-unless she be crass indeed-will recognize that his painting may some day amaze the world. Thus every U. S. home has its potential Mozart. But a year ago, to a startled public, was revealed the most extraordinary prodigy of them all-Nathalia Crane, 11-year-old poet, "The Baby Browning of Brooklyn," whose first volume of verse, The Janitor's Boy, was heralded by critics to be a work of genius...
...passion-weary detachment of a woman who has had her fill of life and its motley follies. Critic-Poet Louis Untermeyer chortled with elation. Poet William Rose Benét wrote a preface. The English Society of Authors and Playwrights (of which Thomas Hardy is President) asked Nathalia Crane to join them...
...those who did not lift their voices to welcome the prodigy was Edwin Markham, Honorary President of the Poetry Society of America. Poet Markham is old; a snow white beard depends from his chin; perhaps because his long experience has rendered him dubious of prodigies, he examined the little Crane girl's poems with critical attention. Of The Janitor's Boy he said nothing. But last week, when he read her second volume, Lava Lane, he hinted a courteous skepticism. Last week he said to a newspaper reporter...
...innocent ones and murmurs float above the clatter of the table d'hôte: "There's Oontermeyer!" "There's Bennett!" One afternoon, after the coffee, suggested Poet Markham, a joke went round the company; pencils flashed from waistcoat pockets, and the Child Genius, Nathalia Crane, was born upon the back of a menu-card...
...Glenn Frank, who since his elevation to the presidential chair of the University of Wisconsin has taken to writing newspaper articles in the manner of Dr. Frank Crane and Publicist Bruce Barton, last week outlined to a newspaper reporter the policy he intends to pursue in his new incumbency. There is an issue at Wisconsin: the regents' resolution to accept no more endowment funds from incorporated educational foundations (TIME, Aug. 17, Oct. 26). But Dr. Frank has only just gone on the scene. He is not one to commit himself. With a shrewd editor's talent for making...