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Chicago intelligentsia have long been aware of Mrs. Hutchins' psychological drawings, compositions of nude female figures drawn "with a blank mind," with no conscious effort, which she calls "dialectic" drawings.* At various parties last winter she showed them to friends, with a magic lantern and a typewritten manuscript of stage directions and remarks, while her friend Professor Mortimer Adler of her husband's psychology department attempted to clear things up by reciting explanatory poems in free verse. A typical Adler...
...over their parts. On the much-rehearsed night Authoress Millay played the Princess, took many a curtain call. Next year, as a real grown-up actress, she played the same part in Manhattan's arty Provincetown Playhouse. Life began to go fast for Authoress Millay. She lost the manuscript of her play, was too busy to bother about it. Thirteen years later she found it again, among some old papers. Easily most popular poetess of the U. S., Edna St. Vincent Millay could afford now to foist off on her sympathetic public almost any callow piece of juvenilia...
...Freud." another consents to a request with "Well, if you incest." Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill is the one who gets shot at the end of the rigmarole, but is happily saved from death by a telephone book which he has been concealing beneath his clothing the manuscript for his new play...
...dapper or brisk about him. He has frizzy grey hair, a beaklike nose down which his spectacles are always sliding. He hates fripperies. He never has been known to wear a new hat. He buys them from his friends when they are through with them. A clean piece of manuscript paper strikes terror to his heart. He writes his tunes on old scores or he may scuff on a piece of paper until it looks properly seasoned. He is quiet, courteous, scholarly. He lives in Bronxville, N. Y. where for him the event of last week was his 13-year...
...Surgeon Bevan rushed Theodore Roosevelt after being shot by a Milwaukee maniac (1912). The bullet, Dr. Bevan recalled last week, went through 100 pages of manuscript and an eyeglass case before entering Roosevelt's body. When Roosevelt died some seven years later the bullet was still in his body, so far as Dr. Bevan knows...