Word: marya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Novelist (Message from a Stranger) Marya Mannes, another Town Hall debater, was shocked. "Dickens is a creative artist," she snapped, "and Mr. Capp is a conveyor belt." The only good thing about the comics, said Mrs. Mannes, is that the most popular strips are in the most irresponsible papers, and serve to keep people from reading their editorials...
...Miss Marya Waite of WInnetka, Ill. has paid to see the show 39 times...
...HISTORY OF AMERICAN POETRY, 1900-1940 (524 pp.)-Horace Gregory and Marya Zaturenska-Harcourf, Brace...
Horace Gregory (46), has been a practicing poet and critic for 20 years and has taught for the last twelve years at Sarah Lawrence College. Russian-born Marya Zaturenska won the Pulitzer Prize in 1938 for her book of poems, Cold Morning Sky. The Mandarin prose of the Gregorys sometimes gets out of hand, running to dreamy convolutions, their urbanity sometimes permits open enjoyment of an innuendo none too polite; their estimates of one or two poets, notably John Gould Fletcher, are horrifyingly kind, and of one or two others, notably Laura Riding, apparently insensible. But in the main...
...second reading in the Morris Gray Poetry Series for the Spring Term will be by Marya Zaturenska on Friday, April 21 at 4:30 o'clock, in the Poetry Room in Widener Library. The last reading was by Robert Penn Warren on March...