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...would hold her for a second in its gleam, remembering her form and mind and strength that had once been here, in one small corner of the globe." Thus, with characteristic bathos, Author Brinig (Singermann, The Sisters) sums up the heroine of his eighth novel, an urban version of Edna Ferber's So Big, written in a style as choked as the author's emotions...
...Engaged. Edna Cantor, third daughter of Comedian Eddie Cantor; and James McHugh Jr., son of Songwriter James McHugh (I Love to Whistle...
...EDNA WHITE McCoRKLE...
...this Committee in the field of literature, within the past few years have been blind and undiscriminating. This year's choices were no exception. Despite the approving babble of occupants of University chairs in poetics on its announcement, the poetry award went to a woman, a sort of minor Edna Millay, whose poems are completely negligible. They are readable and sufficiently sentimental to be a popular choice; they have a certain dexterity and gloss, often substituted for technical superiority and thought, easily overcoming the defences of mediocre critics, but they are hopelessly trivial. These triumphs in the treble of Marya...
...essays ranging from discussion of the form of Milton's Lycidas to a review of a novel by Rebecca West. It includes a highly civilized polishing off of Philosopher George Santayana, a neat dismemberment of T. S. Eliot for Murder in the Cathedral, similarly effective attacks on Edna St. Vincent Millay and Critic I. A. Richards. A polite executioner, Professor Ransom never fails to call attention to the courage of his victims, to the elegance of their dress and manners; and he is willing to let the final blow fall gently, so long as he knows that...