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...BUCK IN THE SNOW?Edna St. Vincent Millay?Harpers...
...years smart young women have been trying to rival with their versification Edna St. Vincent Millay. But she eludes them all with her impertinent patter?"a few figs from thistles"?and, in more serious vein, with her virile poetry culminating in the lyric drama which sang itself to Deems Taylor's opera The King's Henchman, produced sensationally at the Metropolitan...
Cynics of the baptismal font to the contrary, Edna St. Vincent Millay did not affect her lilting name, but she retains it in preference to her husband's, Eugen Jan Boissevain. A wealthy importer, he was previously married to the famed suffragist, Inez Mulholland. Miss Millay is proud of owning "the smallest house and garden in Manhattan" (Greenwich Village), though Thomas Hardy couples her with skyscrapers, "recessional buildings," as the two greatest things in America. She is coupled, further, with Edgar Allan Poe, as the only American poets to have attained translation into the Spanish...
...HIGH ROAD-Lonsdale wit leading to an unhappy crisis in the career of a stage star who has fallen in love with a lord-played perfectly by Edna Best and others (TIME, Sept...
...ROYAL FAMILY−George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber smiling at the domestic antics of one of our theatrical first families (TIME...