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Picketers' Appeal. For "sauntering and loitering" in front of the State House in Boston, 156 men and women were arraigned, found guilty. All but six were fined $5 and paid the fine. The others? Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet; Ellen Hayes, retired Wellesley College professor; John Howard Lawson, playwright; William Patterson, Negro lawyer; Ela Reeve Bloor and Catherine Huntington, liberal gentlewomen?were fined $10. Lawyer Arthur Garfield Hays of the American Civil Liberties Union counseled them to appeal their cases, as tests. His argument...
...Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote a poem beginning, "Let us abandon then our garden and go home." She also picketed, was jailed...
Laurels. The convention named Edna Browning Ruby of Lafayette, Ind., as the "most outstanding business woman" and Judge Florence E. Allen of Columbus, Ohio, as the "most outstanding professional woman" of the nation. Miss Ruby is the only U. S. woman engaged in the business of ecclesiastical art. She designs, builds and installs art-glass church windows and also attends to the interior decoration of churches. Judge Allen has been on the bench of the Supreme Court of Ohio since 1923, was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U. S. Senate...
Died. John Dempsey, 38, brother of onetime heavyweight champion William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey; in Schenectady. In poor health, temporarily insane, he shot and killed his wife Edna Dempsey, 21, then himself...
Distinguished ladies and gentlemen met in a Manhattan theatre last fortnight to pay a U. S. poet the almost archaic compliment of hearing his newest work and appraising it. They were Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay, Kermit Roosevelt, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Lament, Dr. & Mrs. William Lyon Phelps, Dr. & Mrs. Henry Seidel Canby and many another including Critic Carl Van Doren whose position with the Literary Guild of America made him a sort of esthetic promoter of the evening, and Mrs. August Belmont (stage name: Eleanor Robson), who read aloud for all. The poet was Edwin Arlington Robinson...