Word: poems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high jinks on India's frontier. Poor old Gunga Din (Sam Jaffe) has small part in the proceedings. In the first part of the picture he wobbles about carrying a goatskin water bag. In the last part, he inspires a scared-looking Rudyard Kipling to produce a commemorative poem. The rest of the time Gunga Din's doings are eclipsed by those of three agile young sergeants-Gary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks...
Deep Purple (Larry Clinton; Victor). Most earworthy handling of the torch-song-of-the-month-an old Peter de Rose tone poem shortened and given tongue...
...staff of a London bank, The Criterion was expensive (7s. 6d -$1.75), highbrow, never attained a wide circulation (900). Yet its influence unquestionably exceeded that of any other English literary journal. Its first issue printed T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, probably the most influential modern poem. It was the first English periodical to publish the work of Marcel Proust, Paul Valery, Jean Cocteau, many another since-famed major European writer. The list of its contributors-James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats. Robert Graves-is an honor roll of contemporary...
...globe). Between now and March 15th, a lot of U. S. poets will try to translate that symbol into verse. Their incentive: a $1,000 first prize (and five additional prizes of $100 each) offered by the Academy of American Poets for the Fair's Official Poem. Judges: William Rose Benet, Louis Untermeyer, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. For U. S. poets, the first prize is big money indeed-twice their average yearly earnings, about three times Poet Laureate John Masefield's yearly pay, equaled only once before, when Harriet Monroe, late editor of Poetry, wangled...
...collection. When a few minutes later she asked how he felt, little Thomas answered: "Thank you, madam, the agony is abated." At eight he wrote his Compendium of Universal History, a record of leading events from creation to the current year (1808). Next followed a long heroic poem, part of which celebrated the career of his father, Zachary, famed abolitionist and founder of the Bible Society (forerunner of the Gideon Society). At twelve, with little effort, he memorized Paradise Lost and Pilgrim's Progress...