Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Davis. Forty-two-year-old Mrs. Davis, having been a professional pianist at the age of 10, having mothered five children, and taken a fling at Tin Pan Alley (Yon Are the Reason for My Love Song), had decided on a plunge into serious composition. The result, a symphonic poem, The Last Knight, based on some mystical verses by the late G. K. Chesterton, got solicitous treatment from Conductor Monteux, Composer Davis' brother-in-law. Like the now classic Negro Rhapsody of John Powell which followed it, Mrs, Davis' opus was agreeably straightforward. Her knight errant...
...Wall Street as if unaware that his side had been licked. When he died in 1902, newspapers that had attacked him savagely began grudgingly giving him his due; in another ten years he had become a hero to midWest liberals, the "Eagle Forgotten" of Vachel Lindsay's poem...
Ushering in the many activities of Class Day, in gayest festival of the year, the Seniors will assemble in the Kirkland House triangle for the Class Oration, Poem, and Ode at 11:30 o'clock on Wednesday, June 22. The Class Orator will be Wiley E. Mayne '38 of Sanborn, Iowa; the Class Poet, John S. Bainbridge '38 of New York; and the Class Odist, Morris Earle '38 of New York...
...clock will come the Sanders Theatre exercises, to which the Seniors will also march in a body. Prayer will be offered by Professor E. C. Moore, and the oration by Daniel Sargent, the poem by Amos Philip McMahon, and the ode by William Roger Burlingame will be delivered...
Next product of Poet MacLeish's top-working was a radio-play-poem, The Fall of the City, broadcast in 1937. A radio-studio innovation, it presented Fascism as a spook-in-armor, stalking in on and taking control of a nation paralyzed by inertia, fear and propaganda. Few listeners-in agreed on the poetic merits of what the rather wild air waves had been saying, but most did agree that if Fascism should come to the U. S. it would come as a man, not a spook, agreed also that in The Fall of the City Radio-Play...