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Young Poets Wyant Hugh Auden and Stephen Spender, both in their 20's, were contemporaries at Oxford. Each dedicates his book to one Christopher Isherwood. Auden "went down" from Christ Church in 1928, is now teaching at a school near Malvern. Spender left the university three years later, after failing his degree. With an independent income, he can afford to be a professed poet, is at present working on a study of the relation of contemporary writing to political movements and a poetic drama, The Death of a Judge...
...wrote Critic Hannen Swaffer of the London Daily Express after witnessing, last week in Malvern, the English premiere of The Apple Cart, George Bernard Shaw's first play in six years...
...absorb it. Shaw eventually postulates his thesis, which is a criticism of democracy most succinctly expressed in the somewhat muddled Shavianism spoken by King Magnus to his Queen: "America is a nation of wops talking about the Pilgrim Fathers ... it is a world of wops." The consensus of Malvern audiences was that the second act was a bore, the first and third amusing...
...Malvern, Pa., the Rev. Joseph Sproule preached and preached; he preached all morning and far into the afternoon; he ate his lunch in the pulpit. Thus did he prevent his appointed successor, the Rev. C. M. Marvine, who sat waiting in the congregation, from taking his post in the Malvern Methodist Church. That night, however, Pastor Marvine seized the pulpit, and church doors were locked against Pastor Sproule. Repulsed by guards with whom he tussled, Pastor Sproule held service in a nearby house. "I will fight it out on this line if it takes all summer," he cried. Late reports...
...pattern for these Catholic retreats is Mount Manresa, on Staten Island. For years this lay-monastery has provided spiritual haven for the harassed souls of business men. But already a Philadelphia institution, the Men of Malvern, has perhaps surpassed it in favor. The Philadelphians have consecrated to spiritual re-creation 100 acres just outside the city. They have improved a choice suburban landscape with a magnificent chapel, a large comfortable retreat house. The genius of inauguration was supplied by Father Terence Shealy, first director of retreats...