Word: edith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ENGLISH ECCENTRICS (376 pp.)-Dome Edith Sitwell-Vanguard...
Horror Beneath Humor. These summaries help explain why publisher after publisher turned down Author Purdy's collection of short stories. Privately printed last year by two of his friends, the stories found few readers but avid ones. Poets Marianne Moore and Dame Edith Sitwell praised them. Aging (77) Novelist Carl Van Vechten was so impressed that he presented a collection of James Purdy's papers to the Yale library. After British publication last summer, a moderately daring U.S. firm, New Directions, finally took on the Purdy product. On the whole it was worth...
...Louis B. Mayer Foundation, will go the bulk of his fortune; a remaining amount of some $2,500,000 was left to his second wife Lorena ($750,000), his daughter Irene Selznick ($500,000), his adopted daughter Suzanne ($500,000), friends and faithful retainers. But Mayer's daughter Edith, 52, and her husband, Producer William Goetz, were left with nary a bequest. L. B.'s stated reason for this was tart enough: "During my lifetime, I have given them extremely substantial assistance through gifts and financial assistance to my daughter's husband and through the advancement...
...past, in which the mystical names of James Russell Lowell, Bliss Perry, Ellery Sedgwick, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and William Dean Howells figure as editors, the issue goes on to new material by past contributors. Frost, Marquand, Hemingway, Thurber, Berenson, Morison, Isak Dinesen, President Conant, Jung, Slichter, Niebuhr, Osbert and Edith Sitwell, Auden, Wilder, McGinley, R. P. Lister, and the late Max Beerbohm march with deserved pomp and circumstance through the table of contents...
...While Edith Sitwell renders what is probably the most forceful piece of poetry in her tragic memorial to all war orphans...