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Though no disturbance was reported last week at Brooklyn's Evergreen Cemetery, by rights Anthony Comstock should have been spinning like a teetotum in his grave. Viking Press issued the kind of book that was like a call of boots & saddles to the old vice crusader. Erskine Caldwell is a newcomer to the Viking list, a young author of the leftwing, hard-boiled school of U. S. fiction. Queer mixtures of Rabelaisian spade-calling, bell laughter and poetic proletarianism, God's Little Acre luridly illustrates two present-day intelligentsiac trends: towards unashamed sensuality, against capitalistic industry. It also...
...great tradition. Among confused but brilliant conversations the story of the factory's building winds its way. The expropriated peasants protest; hairy saints are rumored to have come from the mossy woods to warn against the new regime; the workers riot; everybody talks at brilliant length. Through the evergreen forest's fur a road is sheared. An immense boom crosses the river, holds back the confluence of logs. With spring's floods the boom breaks. It does not matter?build better, build again. In the depth of the silent wilderness the shouting workmen build Sotstroy. The babel of their confusion...
...also on hand: venerated Lawyer Andrew Squire of Cleveland, student under President Garfield, who told how he alone of his class was too young (11) to serve in the Civil War when Lieut. Colonel Garfield was mustering a regiment. Two Hiram coeds, dressed in hoopskirts, helped plant an evergreen tree on the campus. "Taps" sounded as a flag was run up the flagstaff-the flag which covered President Garfield's casket after his assassination...
...find" of the Garretts is this group though they have been playing engagements in the modernistic little-theatre at Evergreen, the Garretts' Baltimore home, for three summers. They were well established, widely praised before the Garretts first engaged them. In Petrograd Sascha Jacobsen, leader and first violinist, at the age of eight had already attracted much noteworthy attention with his remarkable playing and was preparing zealously for a coveted position in the violin class of great and far-famed Violinist Leopold Auer...
...Under a low hanging evergreen on the front White House lawn, an alley cat last week gave birth to five kittens. From the White House a bowl of milk was sent out to the new mother...