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...That Edna St. Vincent Millay does not destroy the illusion which her henchmen and harpweavers have created is small compensation for the fact that Mr. Mencken resembles a well-fed lodge-member. Colonel Lawrence's profile is sufficiently romantic, Ring Lardner's face is tinged with the traditional gloom of the comedian, and Sherwood Anderson, fortunately, gives an impression not incongruous with his writing. But these are exceptions. They cannot counterbalance D. H. Lawrence's beard nor Ford Maddox Ford's chins. And all the world now knows that the authority on behaviorism in blondes is herself a jet brunette...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RIGHT FACE | 5/3/1927 | See Source »

...waistcoats, his night-club complexion, his affinities and affectations. He will not feel whole literary cocktail parties hanging on his lightest utterance, for it is well agreed now what he can and cannot say; what a pleasantly trite clam he is sometimes and how low he once brought bold Edna .Ferber in a single exchange of shots about looking feminine.** He will be permitted to enjoy himself and the U. S. this time and his real friends, of whom he made quite a number, will see something of him besides the back view of a man shaking hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mayfairian | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...Philadelphia, one Jessie M. Hodges, trying to remove hair from her face, used a preparation bearing the picture of Edna Wallace ("Eternal Flapper") Hopper. The chemical removed Miss Hodge's skin and pained her. She has filed suit against Mrs. Hopper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Timely Judge | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...KING'S HENCHMAN-Edna St. Vincent Millay-Harper ($2). Libretto for "the greatest U. S. opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: THE CREAM | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

Thomas Hardy has said that the U. S. is notable only for skyscrapers and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. Poetess Elinor Wylie has likened her friend to the peculiarly American sea off the coast of Maine, where much of The Henchman was written. Both these admirers were trying to express their feeling that Miss Millay is racially important; that, burning her candle early and late, for light of love and long hours of devoted folk-scholarship, she embodies both the high, bright folly and the brave integrity of a race given equally to deeds and dreaming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

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