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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great virtue in Dean Sperry's treatment of his material is his impersonality. A less skillful writer would have tried to force his own beliefs into his study of others. Dean Sperry, however, meets the layman on his own ground, discussing the material in the light of modern psychology, modern philosophy, and modern literary thought. He does not seek to glorify or debase but merely to explain in terms of modern thought what these "Classics of Christian Devotion" were trying to say. The reader is left to judge for himself whether what was said was worth saying...
...acoustics, the Crimsonians did creditably with their first five numbers which were imitations of old time jazz bands and which illustrated the change of jazz through the twentieth century. These five places were undoubtedly the best of the evening, although most of the solos were in too modern a vein. The band showed its amateurishness in its arrangements and presentation when it warmed up and plunged into its original numbers...
...room, the gift of Harry Harkness Flagler, nephew of Edward Harkness, and Standard Oil executive, is expected to care for the large overflow of poetry material now in the library, and also to provide a place in which recordings of the works of modern poets can be heard without disturbing those wanting to read...
Nearest that James Boyd has come to a modern novel was his Roll River (1935), a story laid in his home town, Harrisburg, from 1880 to 1920. It is his theory (like that of James Branch Cabell) that good novels cannot be written about the present age; a writer needs "the perspective of years to know what most of it amounts to-if anything." Not because his theory is necessarily correct, but because he has written good U. S. historical romances (Drums, Long Hunt, et al.), readers will be glad that Bitter Creek returns to the past...
Squeezed into a small hall in the huge Park Square Building off Arlington Street, the brand new Telepix theatre presents a shower of short features to the public in ultra-modern and ultra-comfortable surroundings. Thus far, however, the "rocking chair comfort" and the sterilized air with ultra-violet ray generators are greater attractions than the uneven assortment of newsreels, travelogues and cartoons...