Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...literary theme this is of course nothing new. When Mr. Brown's long poem "For the Ballet of Sulla" entwines rumba notes and jarring subway trains with rich musical echoes from the past, it is not unfair to say that its inspiration is the same as that of most youthful verse since "The Waste Land". It is gratifying, however, to find this motif displayed not banally or sensationally, but with true lyrical feeling in a profusion of really haunting evocations. Less ambitiously, and in a more quizzical mood, Mr. G. M. Messing has composed another modernistic elegy, based on Jewish...
First on the bill was Le Pauvre Matelot (The Poor Sailor). Darius Milhaud, a member of the French modernist Group of Six, wrote it to a poem by Jean Cocteau. After its world premiere in Paris nine years ago, the opera was seldom put on. Many at the U. S. premiere last week, listening to the puzzled, formless music, thought they could tell why. Others were impressed by the vivid passages of declamation, the odd, unpleasant story of a woman who murdered her husband unbeknown...
...plight reached the U. S. through a letter written to School & Society by one of their number, Gilbert Perez of the Bureau of Education at Manila. After denouncing both the Philippine and the U. S. Governments for "an amazing piece of neglect and ingratitude," Oldster Perez concluded with a poem on The Thomasites. Excerpts...
While in San Quentin Neil wrote a poem which was accepted by the Mother's Day League and wrote an appeal for pardon which brought tears to the board. He escaped, however, before he was pardoned. He is now in jail...
...Leningrad the Davieses sat in the same Great Opera Theatre as did the Tsars & Tsarinas. They even saw the same typically Capitalist sort of opera, namely Eugene Onegin, presented as handsomely as under the Romanovs. The theme of this opera is a poem of at times ridiculous and always entirely bourgeois flirtation and frustration-unless one is a Russian, for all Russians, whether Communists or not, love the poet author of Eugene Onegin, faintly black-blooded Pushkin, "The Russian Shakespeare...