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Letters written over a period of 25 years by Henry Van Dyke to George E. Woodberry '77, nationally popular writer of the last generation, are now on exhibit in the Poetry Room on the top floor of Widener Library...
...mutual respect of two of the most popular writers of the last generation is clearly evinced in the letters from Henry Van Dyke to George E. Woodberry, the most representative of which are now on exhibit in the Poetry Room in Widener Library. Writing in a manner which be speaks great friendship and a long acquaintance, Van Dyke states that Woodberry's Gibraltar Sonnets" will live with Wordsworth; he compares the quality of Woodberry's "Hawthorne" to George Inness' painting. Most interesting of them all is one written shortly before the deaths of both men. It reveals the hearts...
...prints showing decorative art motives will be on exhibit in Gallery 15 of the Fogg Art Museum. Arranged to illustrate the development of decorative art over a period of centuries, the collection is made up of engravings and etchings from the works of Rembrandt, Durer, Clodion, Hogarth, Van Dyke, and many others...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's W. S. ("Woody") Van Dyke (White Shadows in the South Seas, Trader Horn, Eskimo) dislikes being pigeonholed as a "location-director." Yet such he was until he made The Prizefighter and the Lady last autumn. Since then he has made Manhattan Melodrama and The Thin Man, both smash hits. He rarely makes more than two "takes" of a scene; many directors make a dozen. He is a reserve captain in the Marine Corps. Most of his friends are military officers. Military maneuvres are his hobby and he maps out his pictures like a general planning...
...Booth acted in a skimpy garment made of monkey fur. Elephant grass cut her bare feet and legs, the sun blistered her bare thighs, arms and back; African insects gouged her everywhere. The heroine rejoiced when a cloudburst destroyed the camp, two hippopotamuses trampled the debris, and Director Van Dyke ordered the company to move to the Belgian Congo...