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REQUIEM-Humbert Wolfe-Dor-an ($1.50). In English drawing-rooms which once echoed with frantic praise of Shelley's Adonais or censure of Keats' Endymion people now prefer, if literature must be mentioned, to comment briefly on what Bernard Shaw said to the old lady from Nantucket. The one astounding exception to this rule is found in the poetry of Humbert Wolfe, a young Briton whose work has actually inserted itself into the lists of best sellers. Possessed of a dexterous though partly imitative technique, it has none of the raucous and hurtling sentiment which usually gives poetry...
LORD RAINGO-Arnold Bennett- Dor an ($2). Born a commoner, buried a peer...
While passing through the corri dor of a public building, Premier Djaffer Ypi was shot by a student. He was reported not to have been seriously injured...
Then Otto Hermann Kahn, chairman of the Board of Directors, made a speech. Said he: "Instead of addressing you [Scotti] in dry, measured terms, the right way to handle this ceremony would be a pantomime with music, somewhat on the lines of Coq dOr. I ought to stand here going through the motions of making a speech, while lovely voices with lovely music sing an ode to Scotti and lovely women place a laurel wreath upon your 'brow. I throw this out as a suggestion for my successor at your 50-year jubilee...
Remington, P. S., Jr., 21 Paisley Pk., Dor...