Word: edithe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...backhanded compliment" to America (TIME. Dec. 8). Flaying the 50 academicians as a group, Mr. Lewis nevertheless made ten exceptions, evinced a weakness for: Nicholas Murray Butler (president of the Academy), Wilbur Lucius Cross, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, James Trus-low Adams, Hamlin Garland, Owen Wister, Brand Whitlock, Edith Wharton, Booth Tarkington. But the Academy, he declared, "does not represent literary America today, it represents only Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
Camille was scheduled for performance last season but postponed because of insufficient time for preparation, some say because the domestic difficulties of Music Director Giorgio Polacco and Soprano Edith Mason last year slowed up the activities of the company. Neither returned this year...
Children's Bureau. Grace Abbott, chief of the Children's Bureau, is a less scholarly humanitarian than her older sister, Professor Edith Abbott of the University of Chicago. But she is the more militant. Perhaps that is why she has risen to high administrative work in the government and is discussed as successor to her superior, Secretary of Labor James John Davis, who retires to join the 71st Congress as Senator from Pennsylvania when it meets this week...
...American Academy of Arts & Letters opened a new wing of its Manhattan building, met (50 academicians) with 18 delegates from foreign academies, announced the election of five new members: Novelist Edith Wharton (second female to be elected, the first having been Poetess Julia Ward Howe, who died in 1910), Poet Robert Frost, Professor Irving Babbitt, Sculptor George Grey Barnard, Biographer James Truslow Adams; taking places left vacant by the deaths of Thomas Hastings, Frank V. van der Stucken, Arthur Twining Hadley, Brander Matthews, George Edward Woodberry. Corresponding members elected were Poet Sir William Watson, Poet Laureate John Masefield...
...Metropolitan; Frenchman Mario Laurence. New baritones: Jean Vieuille from the Paris Opera Comique, Rudolph Bockelmann from Hamburg, Hans Hermann Nissen from Munich, Eduard Habich from Berlin, Salvatore Baccaloni from Milan, John Charles Thomas. A new stage director, Dr. Otto Erhardt, has come from the Dresden State opera. Soprano Edith Mason, divorced wife of musical Director Giorgio Polacco, will not return...