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Unless a really entrancing sin can be soon devised, the younger generation will be forced to look for their satisfactions in productive labor. Along the cheerless stretches of existence, many adventurous successes may be achieved. As Edna Ferber's popular novel, "So Big" showed, the Saxon capacity for work is a saving grace not to be ignored. By the use of a modicum of imagination, the seeming oblivion of toil may be turned into a romance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LITERARY DIAGNOSIS | 6/11/1926 | See Source »

...pale but audacious Greenwich Village householder, named Edna St. Vincent Millay, once wrote, among other things, an imprudent quatrain in which she distilled a favorite notion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Boston | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

...three-act American opera, The King's Henchman, by Deems Taylor with text by Edna St. Vincent Millay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stokowski's Satire | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...Scandal. It is a Woman's game and a Woman's profit. And, indeed, why should Man worry? He can now afford to spend the afternoons at the club, since the children can be brought up on the by-products of Margot's tongue, or the vitality or Edna's system, not to mention the gate receipts of a good case of moral turpitude, Fortune has left the office and the bank, and retired shyly to the boudoir...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LITERARY TURPITUDE | 3/16/1926 | See Source »

Repertory--"Minick," by Edna Furber, on Monday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 3/13/1926 | See Source »

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