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Help us ordinary guys, the sort who read and enjoyed Gone With the Wind and Jurgen and who can take all of Victor Herbert and only some of Brahms and Tchaikovsky. We are the kind of Americans who are not going to feign seeing something that we don't see. . . . How come Braque's wine bottle with ears, containing light colored fluid on one side of the bottle, dark on the other? Why the screwy perspective? Go ahead TIME, get hot, get arty as Hell, educate us ordinary birds who have our hair cut every two weeks. There...
...equivocal than an interrogation mark. In fact, he pushes him into a rear seat with so ungentlemanly a shove that it almost becomes a punch below the belt. It was not very long ago, was it, that the hall-mark of the sophisticated undergraduate was an intimate acquaintance with "Jurgen"? Sic transit...
...Carl Van Doren called the Society "a conspicuous nuisance in the community." Heywood Broun, co-biographer with Margaret Leech (Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer) of Anthony Comstock, said that the plaintiff's reputation was "bad." Artist Rockwell Kent testified that by emphasizing the "filth" in books which it disapproves (notably Jurgen, Casanova's Homecoming and The Well of Loneliness) the Society has boosted sales of such books beyond normal by bringing them to the attention of eroticurious minds...
...Music Critic Lawrence Gilman, has arranged a longer-than-ever list of special features. Old favorites: The Hall Johnson Negro Choir, Anna Duncan, the Denishawns, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in B-flat. Innovations: George Gershwin's "An American in Paris,'' Deems Taylor's "Jurgen," Edward Burlingame Hill's Symphony in B Flat, Ernest Bloch's rhapsody "America" (with 500-voice chorus). Albert Coates of London, as guest conductor during August, has promised his own Scherzo from The Pickwick Papers, subtitled "The Elopement of the Spinster Aunt...
Married. Virginia Waddill Shepherd of Richmond, Va., step-daughter of Novelist James Branch Cabell (Jurgen); and Edward King Davis, Manhattan lawyer; in Richmond...