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Awarded to Robert Penn Warren, 42, Southern poet-novelist: the Pulitzer Prize, for his novel about a Huey Longish demagogue, All the King's Men (TIME, Aug. 26). To Robert Lowell, 29, cousin of the late Poetess Amy Lowell (and husband of Novelist Jean Stafford), went the poetry prize, for Lord Weary's Castle (TIME, Dec. 16). Both prizes had been skipped last year; this year the judges decided to skip the drama prize...
Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 6 sides). Reorchestrated and edited, this program music for a longish Martha Graham ballet is perhaps the best thing Aaron Copland has written...
Author Algernon Blackwood, a bald, tall (6 ft. 2 in.) Englishman now 77, is still up to his old tricks. The Doll is his first book in ten years. It consists of merely two longish stories (the other: The Trod), both typical old-style Blackwood: sinister, spooky, uncanny. To the literal-minded, such writing appears to be raving nonsense. So, in one sense, it surely is, but Blackwood is almost as artful at making it seem plausible as Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's stories are mysterious and terrifying, but for the most part they can be explained in perfectly...
...Colbert and Orson Welles-as well as cinema's old friends Rip van Winkle and Enoch Arden. Derived from a lending library novel of the same title, the film concerns a young lady (Claudette) who believes that her husband (Welles) was killed in World War I. After a longish period of mourning, she reluctantly remarries. But husband No. 1, by no means dead, continues to live on in Europe. On the eve of World War II, he returns to the U.S. with a foster daughter and strong anti-Nazi sentiments...
...better first novel was Adria Locke Langley's A Lion Is in the Streets. It described the political and love life of a Huey Longish character who rose from pack peddler to total boss of Magnolia State. For A Lion, hungry M-G-M paid $250,000-the highest price on record for a novel's movie rights...