Word: edna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Little Emily when David's friend Steerforth betrays her, Lionel Barrymore wears the chin whiskers of a Yarmouth fisherman. David's widowed mother (Elizabeth Allen); Mr. Murdstone (Basil Rathbone) who marries her, frightens her to death and packs David off to earn his living; violent Aunt Betsey (Edna May Oliver), who befriends David and beats such visitors as ride donkeys to her Dover cottage; Mr. Dick (Lennox Pawle), her shrewd, erratic house guest who was always getting the head of King Charles I into his writings; Dora (Maureen O'Sullivan) who uses the account book for sketching...
...your issue of Nov. 5, on p. 69, under the caption of Books, your reviewer describes the voice of Edna St. Vincent Millay as "clear but excitingly husky." With this description I beg to differ, having heard Miss Millay on her trip to Dallas several years ago and also several times over the radio....I recall the sweet clear soprano of her speaking voice distinctly. In her lines from The Buck in the Snow especially, her voice registered high treble. In fact, to me, it was "excitingly soprano...
...usual, hurrying U. S. citizens paused to give ear to Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. Some were impressed by Publisher Harper's proud announcement that two editions of her book had been exhausted before publication date, but many more looked forward to drinking in another recital of carefully muted chamber music. Many a reverent reader, mindful of the Olympian thunders her Fatal Interview brought down,* doffed his hat before he tiptoed into the audience. But plain readers soon discovered that Wine from these Grapes was a good but by no means a great performance...
Such readers are often made uneasy by the linguistic vagaries of contemporary poets. But Edna St. Vincent Millay is still a lucid poet. Though it is a modern belief that poets, to be audible at all, must speak in an original voice. Poet Millay's originality lies not in a surprisingly exact vocabulary but in the fainter, pleasanter flavor of language reminiscent of poetry-at-large. Though her studied verse sometimes sounds too consciously traditional, such classic artifice as the following will have charm for most readers...
...poet but a lady poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay writes not only valentines but epitaphs in lines less mighty than aristocratic. Even when she compares a woman's breasts to wild carrot and onion blossoms or describes the mating of dinosaurs, she contrives to make neither an uncouth nor an arresting gesture. At the sight of a new sonnet sequence critics may hitch up to their typewriters and look for unstruck keys, but ordinary readers will prefer Poet Millay's less pretentious quatrains...