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With the exception of Poet Robert Frost and the possible exception of the late Elinor Wylie, Edwin Arlington Robinson is the only contemporary U. S. poet whose excellence is acknowledged by the critical choir. Unlike his colleague, Poet Robinson has at times warmed his publisher's heart by proving popular. His Tristram sold 85,000 copies, is still quietly on the move. Tristram readers may not all want a copy of Nicodemus, but Robinson readers will...
...RIPENING - Colette - Farrar & Rinehart. What Elinor Glyn used to be to thousands, Colette has increasingly become: purveyor to those who like mild aphrodisiacs in print.* But Colette, far above Authoress Glyn's tabloid class, wraps her erotic tablets in bathos-proof cellophane. Her uncanny feminine understanding, hearty physical sympathy for the internal workings of human nerves and glands, make her a writer who cannot avoid being labeled passionate but who never runs any danger of being cheap. Of the many Colette translations that have appeared in the U. S. in the last few years, The Ripening...
...Cormick explained, "you can't have an exhibition without nudes." Amusing was what the artist called her "American Primitive"?a group, done from an old photo- graph and much resembling a colored tintype, of the late whiskered Joseph Medill, the Colonel as a boy of 16 his cousins Elinor ("Sissie") Patterson (now editor of the Washington Herald} and Joseph Medill Patterson, his late brother Medill. Wrote Critic C. J. Bulliet of the Chicago Evening Post: ". . . Mrs Mc-Cormick is not bad enough for empty flattery. ... Nor is she good enough to excite the envy and the malice...
Britons read in a leading London weekly the above unsolicited testimonial from Novelist Elinor ("It") Glyn (Three Weeks), daughter of a Canadian, widow of an Englishman. Matter of fact last week there were sound reasons for the Empire to feel a little saucy. The British fiscal year 1931-32 had just closed and instead of recording disaster, Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain was able to announce that Britain's budget balanced with a surplus...
Married. William Rose Benét, 46, poet, critic, onetime associate (now contributing) editor of the Saturday Review of Literature; and Lora Baxter, 26, actress (The Animal Kingdom) ; in Manhattan. Poet Benét's second wife was the late Poet Elinor Hoyt Wylie...