Word: penning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those who figure that an author's abilities should at least keep pace with his public's have had their calculations upset by Author Masters' post-Spoon River performances. Thirty-two generally humdrum volumes of prose and verse have poured from his pen into the literary ocean, and have disappeared with faint gurgles barely audible to the public at large. But the sense of Poet Masters' potential ability lingers on; and to a loyal band of U. S. readers every new Masters book comes bound in hope as well as boards...
...CROOKED CORONET-Michael Arlen-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Since the resounding splash of The Green Hat (1924) seven books have dropped more or less silently from Author Aden's pen. There is no reason why his latest should cause more of a splash than its predecessors. A collection of connected short stories (whimsically called "legends"), it describes a housemaid's dream of gilded ladies and ornate gentlemen, pursuing, amid the glint of diamonds and the smoke of fine cigars, their exquisitely sophisticated pleasures...
...anti-Comintern Pact is so loose that last week's pen squiggling in Rome was little more than a gesture, less important than Mussolini's visit to Hitler (TIME, Oct. 4), but a gesture timed to come on Bolshevism's Birthday...
Golden Boy (produced by the Group Theatre) came last week fresh from the vigorous, maturing pen of Playwright Clifford Odets to put up a convincing argument for plain speaking in the spoken drama, for the serious play as a good show. Its dozen scenes sketched the tragic story of a U. S.-Italian family caught in the toils of the prizefight business. Though it sometimes teetered on the brink of bathos, Author Odets' robust sincerity kept it from toppling over...
Next Harvard man in was Pen Tuttle '40, in eighth place. Roswell Brayton '39 was tenth, William Wright '38 in fifteenth place was the next Crimson man in. And the remaining six men finished in order starting with nineteenth place; Alex Northrop '38; George P. Gardner, Jr. '39; Frank L. Porter '40; Edward S. Childs '40; Francis M. Rivinus...