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...speech. Our poets today, a lot of them, are metaphor-crackers. They crack metaphors as other people crack jokes"-and concluded: "The idea that the only literature is the literature of the past is wrong. This meeting, the Institute, might well be the beginning of a renaissance." Sprightly Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay was present. She contributed no theorizing, merely read from her poetical works and acted a play with three characters, by herself. Hatcher Hughes, a Columbia professor whose youthful mien belied his pedagogical calling, conquered a certain diffidence and told how he came to fashion the lives...
...best U.S. novel ($4,000)? to Edna Ferber...
...opponent. After eight minutes of wrestling, however, he picked up the opposing Hercules, twirled him around his head, hurled him to the floor. Another fall followed in even shorter time. Mrs. Bessie Kaufman, wife of Munn's manager, fainted, with a little gasp, into the lap of Mrs. Edna Munn...
...Munis Jr., Chairman, Miss Nancy Vose: D. Reynolds, Miss Helen Rose; D. H. Leavitt, Miss Edna Field; G. R. Wadsworth, Miss Margaret Palmer; C. A. Gardiner, Miss Helen Noble; G. J. Farrelly, Miss Frances White...
...Creighton, Chairman, Miss Joan Sullivan; J. W. Belser, Miss Lamora Gleason; D. G. Casto, Miss Edna Applebee; J. H. Gebelein, Miss Polly Smith; C. W. Gillies, Miss Marjorie Sullivan; Francis Millet, Miss Debora Wood; G. S. Rich, Miss Claudia Hencken; A. E. Simonson, Miss Jane Murray; J. V. D. Southworth, Miss Martha Collins; Harold Wagar, Miss Barbara Backus; C. P. Morehouse, Miss Sally Hardeastle; Mr. Henry Kass, Miss A. F. Merian...