Word: poem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock--Sanders Theatre Exercises: Oration, Poem...
...Swift concert, given as usual at Orchestra Hall under Conductor David Alva Clippinger. The house, packed with Chicago socialites, long and loudly applauded her, demanded and got five encores. Another feature was the first performance of Outward Bound, Swift-prize-winning chorus composed by Franz Bornschein to a poem by Catherine Parmenter. Composer Bornschein, no Swift employe, has three times won the annual $100 prize. Honorable mention this year was awarded to Abram Moses of Baltimore and Gustav Mehner of Grove City...
...Poet Stephen Vincent Benet wrote his best-seller poem, John Brown's Body, on a Guggenheim Fellowship...
...lives of five people whose lives gradually converge: Mac, wobbly (I. W. W.) linotyper; Janey, Washington stenographer; J. Ward Moorehouse, "public relations counsel"; Eleanor Stoddard, Chicago pseudartist; Charley Anderson, mechanic from Fargo, N. Dak. And here and there, in a kind of chorus to the whole action, are prose-poem biographies of big men of the day-written half like news paper obituaries, half like Whitman poems: Eugene Victor Debs, "Big Bill'' Haywood, Luther Burbank, William Jennings Bryan, Minor Cooper Keith (founder of the United Fruit Co.), Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Alva Edison, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, "the most valuable...
...commemoration of bygones, but on the contrary crowded with hopes for the future. It was tangibly marked by an ambitious program in which the Cleveland Orchestra under Conductor Nikolai Grigorovitch Sokolov and a company of players were to present as symphonic dramas Charles Martin Loeffler's Pagan Poem, Henri Rabaud's Procession Nocturne and Werner Janssen's New Year's Eve in New York...