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...from being strictly evangelical, the Methodist hymnal contains a hymn by a Roman Catholic nun named Sister Mary Xavier and a hymn beginning Bless the four corners of this house by Arthur Guiterman, skittish versifier for magazines. It also contains some authentic poetry. Thus, Sidney Lanier: Into the woods my Blaster went, clean forspent, forspent; Into the woods my Master went, forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to him, The little grey leaves were kind to him, The thorn-tree had a mind to him, When into the woods he came...
...Plaza had fallen into such disrepute that the city turned off the water from her urn. Her porous limestone base had sucked up moisture like blotting paper, had cracked and chipped with each winter's freeze. So dirty and neglected were her face and body that Versifier Arthur Guiterman complained about it in The New Yorker. In an answering rhyme Ralph Pulitzer promised action...
...Theatre Guild has made a musicomedy for highbrows. The plot of the two middleaged brothers who woo their young wards with indulgence and tyranny is the same in which France's King Louis XIV played a small part in 1664. The dialog has been jingled by Poetaster Arthur Guiterman and Guild Director Lawrence Langner. Guiterman has written neatly lyrical doggerels to be sung to songs based on old French folk-tunes and bergerettes. Able Dancers Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman and assistants give a parody turn and little inspiration to some 17th Cen-tury dances. Pictorially it is nearly perfect...
Last fortnight The New Yorker printed a rimed petition to the Mayor of New York, addressed by Poet Arthur Guiterman in behalf of the City's begrimed public statues. Next issue appeared with a five-stanza reply in fluent doggerel, signed by smart little Acting Mayor Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee, Excerpt: I too had noted the condition That caused you, Sir, to make petition. I've pitied Washington and Skene, As poor white marble turned to green, And Booth and Tilden, Grant...
...smartchart New Yorker recently published verses by Poet Arthur Guiterman complaining that the fountain statue which confronts Manhattan's Hotel Plaza was in bad condition. Two weeks later it published a long rhymed response by Ralph Pulitzer, whose father gave the Lady of the Plaza to New York City. Excerpt...