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MAKE BRIGHT THE ARROWS-Edna St. Vincent Millay-Harper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Last month Edna St. Vincent Millay was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She plans to spend the coming winter-as if in an attempt to holystone an overstuffed literary position-verse-pamphleteering about current events. The lyrics she has written in 1940 forbode Millay-things probably to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...wholly emotional and not in the least rational." Tony Galento: "Roosevelt will beat this Willkie just as bad as I'll beat Joe Louis the next time I catch up with the bum." William S. Knudsen (when asked whom he would vote for): "Go jump in the lake." Edna St. Vincent Millay (in an anti-Roosevelt "poem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Last Words | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...Pennsylvania State Board of Censors banning a revised version of the MARCH OF TIME'S first full-length feature, a story of how the U. S. entered and fought World War I called The Ramparts We Watch (TIME, July 29). Reason: since The Ramparts was approved by Mrs. Edna Carroll and her assistant censors in early August, MOT had inserted 900 feet from Baptism of Fire, the Nazis' record of their Polish Blitzkrieg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ramparts in Pennsylvania | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

Here is another one of those exalting, exasperating Warner epics that drag on indefinitely being just too, too documentary about everything. Edward G. Robinson as Julius Reuter and Edna Best as his wife try in vain to sell their sickening sentimentality as old world charm. Mr. Robinson should stick to gangsters instead of dabbling in the German bourgeoisie. And Mr. Bassermann could also be a little less Continental and a little more convincing in his part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

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