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CREATING THE MODERN AMERICAN NOVEL-Harlan Hatcher-Farrar & Rinehart ($3). A broad academic survey of contemporary novelists from William Faulkner to Albert Halper, together with an explanation of current techniques and trends...
...such subjects as lynching, starvation among the share-croppers and unemployed factory workers, criminal assault, black and white "naturals," and childbirth in a claypit. In what now seems to be settling down into a serious contest between him and the other most eminent fiction writer of the South, William Faulkner, Mr. Caldwell has here delivered the latest blow. He has equalled if not outdone himself and his rival in inventing novel and repellent forms of rape and violent death. In the title story one of the characters amuses himself by cutting off dogs' tails, of which he keeps a large...
...legendary character of the old South, all chivalresque, julepy and magnolious, is still stoutly upheld by such loyal romanticists as Stark Young and Julia Peterkin, but its present reputation has been considerably damaged by the nightmare realism of William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell. Author Caldwell, particularly, has been almost wholly concerned with telling tales on a part of the South no Southerner ever boasts of-the poor white trash that clutters the South's backyards. Often he makes his tattered crackers the scarecrow-heroes of wildly ribald yarns, but almost as often they appear as the victims...
...sessions, the first part of the concert starting at 4.30 o'clock in the afternoon and the second at 8.30 o'clock in the evening. In addition, five prominent vocalists will render solos at the performance of Handel's "Solomon." They are Margaret Matzenauer, Olga Averina, Charles Hackett, Keith Faulkner, and Julius Huehn. All but Huehn will also take part in the Bach program...
Engaged. James Paul Warburg, Manhattan banker, writer on economics, monetary adviser to the U. S. delegation at the 1933 London Economic Conference, divorced husband of Composer Katharine Faulkner ("Kay") Swift; and Mrs. Phyllis Baldwin Browne, sister of socialite New York State Senator Joseph Clark Baldwin III. divorced wife of Gilbert G. Browne of Manhattan...