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...sentimental classic up-to-date usually opens the door tor a display of easy superiority over antique quaintness. The distinction of E. E. Cummmgs' ballet based on Uncle Tom's Cabin is that the poet has accepted completely the elemental seriousness and flowery melodrama of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's masterpiece. Ingeniously impressed into four episodes, the first ending with Eliza's escape as she starts across the ice, the last with Tom's magnificent entry into Heaven, the ballet gives a free play to E. E. Cummings' intricate imagination, does not suggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ballet on Ice | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...remembering his pretty gift for snappy sermon titles, I was moved to note tonight's offering on his billboard. Well, he will particularize "A Kiss That Didn't Count." That should catch many a hesitant eye tempted to rove among the bathing beauties of nearby Lake Harriet. It's hot here in July, too, so every automobile is a competitor. True, he gives fair warning that the kiss didn't count. Perhaps that's what makes everything all right. DONALD HARRIS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 29, 1935 | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

Last year addicts of horror stories hailed Elizabeth Jenkins' Harriet as a masterpiece of its kind. Harriet told the story of a pathetic, dim-witted woman driven to death by four handsome youngsters who were fearsome only in their unconsciousness of their guilt. Critics saw tricks of style and manner that suggested Author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modern Paragon | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

CHOSEN POEMS - Harriet Monroe - Macmillan ($3). A selection from the work of the founder-editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: May 13, 1935 | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

...Duke of St. Albans, who in 1827 unnerved George IV by marrying Harriet Mellon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gaiety Duchess | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

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