Word: edna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...KING'S HENCHMAN-Edna St. Vincent Millay-Harper ($2). Folk who must bide their time to hear how Composer Deems Taylor upheld his end of a notable collaboration, will wonder, reading this play, which was written first, his music or the Millay words? If she followed him, he must have written right beautifully. If he followed her, the music needed little more than orchestrating. In the speeches set down here, scarcely a line falls upon the ear without touching a clear note-a misty whitethorn treble, superstitious minors, full-throated, Beowulfian bass. Had the Metropolitan singers at last fortnight...
Thomas Hardy has said that the U. S. is notable only for skyscrapers and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Poetess Elinor Wylie has likened her friend to the peculiarly American sea off the coast of Maine, where much of The Henchman was written. Both these admirers were trying to express their feeling that Miss Millay is racially important; that, burning her candle early and late, for light of love and long hours of devoted folk-scholarship, she embodies both the high, bright folly and the brave integrity of a race given equally to deeds and dreaming...
...operas had come through competition for prizes, forced hot-house flowers, that wilted soon after exposure. Some were independent experiments, brilliant in spots, dull on the whole. An opera requires musicianship but it fails without the accompaniment of theatre. So Signor Gatti-Casazza selected the creators of the Henchman. Edna St. Vincent Millay, poetess with a dramatic sense, was to write the libretto (TIME, Jan. 17); Deems Taylor, composer of concert music, onetime music critic of the N. Y. World, would provide the score...
...Valentino school of romantic acting, still flourishing although its originator has joined the immortals. And there is the Hearst school of journalism, the Herrin school of gun-toting, the Lardner school of bon-mots--schools innumerable. The latest addition to the ranks would appear to be the academy of Edna St. Vincent Millay; at least Edmund Wilson in the Nation, has named Miss Millay as the muse of Dorothy Parker, who has just emerged from the aureate glow of the Algonquin Round Table with a book of poems...
...Chicago Company recognizes the value of opera in English (TIME, Oct. 4). The Met- ropolitan has scheduled The King's Henchman for March. So thoroughly English is it, say notices, that not a word of the lyrics but is derived directly from the Saxon tongue. The poet: Edna St. Vincent Millay, precocious young lady of Vassar, who published Renascence the same year she received...