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America moves fast. Speed has leaped to the fore of our national traits. Elinor Wylie calls it a national fever: Americans, she says, keep the pavements...
...Salter, Chairman, Miss Anne Moran; A. G. Carrillo, Miss Pearl Fairweather: W. M. Reynolds, Miss Lavist Allen: R. J. Feist, Miss Lillian Lueas; Andrew Fuller, Miss Elinor Clark; A. C. Burrel, Miss Satterlee...
...Parry Jr., Chairman, Miss Celesfe Pope; G. P. Carver Jr., Miss Constance Stanton; E. H. Ober, Miss Alice Madden: W. F. Howard, Miss Helen Powers; B. D. Leahey, Miss Kate Johnson: R. C. Howe Jr., Miss Elizabeth Hanson; R. L. Hunt, Miss Frances Love; F. Dyer, Miss Elinor Burnett; R. H. Babbitt, Miss Ruth Johnston; R. S. Lee, Miss Mildred Stone, L. A. Weisman, Miss Dorothy Kiam; A. R. Allen Jr., Miss Elizabeth Thorndike...
Your editor has given me a list of names of authors whom he desires to be limned in this column. Some of them I have met. Some are strangers to me in the flesh ; but, willy nilly, I am determined to write a column concerning them. First, is Elinor Wylie, born in Washington, married now to William Rose Benét, living in rural Connecticut, writing vigorously on a new novel...
Here is a quaint imagination, a fine wit, a delicate style. One first thinks of it as fragile, then realizes that in reality Elinor Wylie's work would be robust were it only in consideration of her technical perfection. I like to think of her now in an old Connecticut house, surrounded by the demands of several children, yet creating quite calmly and steadily a manuscript fit to be traced upon vellum and illuminated by monks in cloisters, something rich, rare and only very gently indecorous...