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Divorced. Oliver Hart Palmer Garrett, 37, oldtime New York World reporter, cinema writer and adapter (Moby Dick, City Streets, If I Had a Million, Story of Temple Drake); and Mrs. Louis Mumford Gignoux Garrett; in Los Angeles...
...reader of his Pulitzer-Prizewinning poem, John Brown's Body, had an uneasy feeling that it was about time "poetry" was redefined. But many a reader of James Shore's Daughter will wish that Poet Benét had not taken a vacation in prose. What Lewis Mumford (see below) would call "fatally readable," James Shore's Daughter has the faint odor of a Richard Harding Davis novel that has survived a little too long. Those who never expected much from Author Benét will take the book for what it is—a pleasantly nostalgic romance...
TECHNICS AND CIVILIZATION - Lewis Mumford-Harcourt, Brace...
...become a prophet. From Major Prophet Marx to Minor Prophet H. G. Wells there has been a swarm of soothsayers laying down the law, but rarely have their tables of stone weathered the drizzle of a single generation. Of the modestly minor interpreters of the modern U. S., Lewis Mumford has one of the most respectful followings. No Jeremiah, no hard-shell Marxian, with no patent axe to grind, he goes at the complex mass of modern civilization with all five senses. Technics and Civilization, scholarly, ambitious, big (495 pp.), does not attempt to be a Bible for any creed...
...Author Mumford denies that the Machine Age began with the harnessing of steam, points out that "the modern machine age cannot be understood except in terms of a very long and diverse preparation. The notion that a handful of British inventors suddenly made the wheels hum in the eighteenth century is too crude even to dish up as a fairy tale to children." The real machine age, which he says has been with us 1,000 years, Mumford divides into three overlapping, interpenetrating phases: eotechnic, paleotechnic, neotechnic...