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...nurse his bottle and his grudge. His wide-eyed sister, Betsy Palmer, goes out to the stable and hangs herself. Finally. John Ireland, after quivering with rage and lust for 95 minutes, brings things to a happy conclusion by burning himself and Joan alive. Based on a novel by Edna Lee, the film is played as though it were a road company East Lynne, and though packed with synthetic violence, the only thing moviegoers need fear is the flying cliches...
...speaker in these poems often adapts an urgent tone reminiscent of Edna St. Vincent Millay, but this urgency is fortunately tempered by Miss Jennings' awareness that it will pass, that the emotion is twice as intense as it should properly...
...found she was pretty handy at woodworking. From early morning until cocktail time, in fact, the twelve scarcely had a moment's idleness. They took trips to the U.N., attended the experimental theater at nearby Vassar College, spent the evenings reading aloud from Lord Dunsany, Thornton Wilder and Edna St. Vincent Millay. One man's blood pressure dropped 30 points; one woman's stomach disorder disappeared...
Front Row Center (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Dinner at Eight, the George S. Kaufman-Edna Ferber stage and screen hit, starring Pat O'Brien, Mary Astor...
Wrote he: "For three-quarters of a century it has been my fate to watch . . . a long string of friends . . . traveling to their graves by the alcoholic highway: Jack London, George Sterling, Sinclair Lewis, Edna Millay, Theodore Dreiser, W. E. Woodward, F. P. Dunne (Mr. Dooley), Horace Liveright, Eugene Debs, Douglas Fairbanks, Eugene O'Neill, Sherwood Anderson, Klaus Mann." And, lamented Sinclair, the roster of hard drinkers among the illustrious he knew through letters or friends was even longer. Among those departed: "Stephen Crane, James Whitcomb Riley, Heywood Broun, Edgar Lee Masters, Edwin A. Robinson, Isadora Duncan, Thomas Wolfe...