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THIS month two aging American bards, alumni of neighboring Illinois colleges, took up their ruggedly-strung lyres again: Carl Sandburg, 58, Lombard College '02, with The People, Yes; Edgar Lee Masters, 67, Knox College, with Poems of the People...
...Sandburg came back to hometown Galesburg wearing the blue of a private who had seen service with the 6th Illinois Volunteers in Porto Rico. Hero Sandburg resumed his poverty-ridden studies at Lombard College. Edgar Lee Masters came to Knox College from Kansas, stayed several years, and prepared for life in a law office...
After aimless years as a humble laborer and newspaper man, Sandburg startled American letters with his Chicago Poems in 1915. Edgar Lee Masters discovered the emptiness of small town middle western life in Spoon River Anthology in 1922 after he had ceased to practice law. To Lombard's Carl Sandburg, Knox College has given an honorary Litt. D. To its own son Edgar Lee Masters, Knox has awarded no similar honor...
...Carole Lombard, whom we once thought was through, rose to tempestuous heights to steal the show from the suave William Powell in the most laughable comedy since "The Thin Man." Put "My Man Godfrey," now being held over for a second week at Keiths on your must list...
Powell, smiling, superior, quietly humorous, was far outshone by the impetuous Lombard. Madcap society daughter Lombard suffers from a bitter jealousy of her older sister. Searching for a forgotten man to help beat her sister in a scavenger hunt, Lombard finds Powell living on the city dump. Grateful to him for having helped beat her sister, Lombard adopts Powell as her protege and gives him the position of butler...