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...Praise the Lord; you have lately "passed up" the ammunition twice in praise of poets -Robert Frost and Christopher Fry. Why not name one as Man of the Year ? FRED K. BREWSTER St. Louis...
Seldom has a TIME story evoked such an enthusiastic response as our October 9 cover story on Poet Robert Frost. In this space and in the Letters section we have already told you something about this reaction-not only to the story itself but also to Boris Chaliapin's cover portrait. Concerning the latter, a college English professor has written us: "Boris Chaliapin has caught the essential things we have learned to revere about the poet: birches, a wall, a running brook, and above all, the searching friendliness of his eyes...
These qualities were also discernible to the authorities of Dartmouth and Amherst colleges, who asked, simultaneously, if they could have the original cover painting. Each college has a special interest in Frost. Both have extensive collections of Frostiana. Frost has been a fellow at Dartmouth and an English professor at Amherst, where he is now a lecturer in literature. Naturally, lie has many personal friends at both colleges...
These twin requests posed an obvious dilemma. We could not very well give one painting to two colleges. We finally decided that the only solution of the problem was to ask Chaliapin to do another Frost portrait as nearly like the "original original" as possible. It has been completed, and the two paintings will be presented soon to the two colleges, which plan to place them on permanent display. Only Chaliapin will know which college got the original original - and only if they are set side by side will anyone be able to tell them apart...
Died. Julia Marlowe (real name: Sarah Frances Frost), 84, for almost four decades (1887-1924) one of the brightest stars of the American stage; in Manhattan. Born in northern England of farmer stock, she moved to Kansas with her family at five, played her first stage part in Cincinnati at twelve, reached Broadway stardom in 1887. Best known for her warm, throaty "Juliet" and "Ophelia," she toured the U.S. for years with her husband, famed Actor E. H. Sothern ("Sothern & Marlowe"), made Shakespeare a big box-office attraction. She retired in 1924, lived in seclusion at Manhattan's Plaza...