Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three Men On A Horse (Warner Brothers). Oiwin Trowbridge (Frank McHugh), the greeting-card poet, originating obscurely in the brain of John Cecil Holm, sharpened and clarified by Playwright George Abbott, has attained the gigantic stature that comes to a stage character with 96 weeks on Broadway, five road companies in the U. S., one in Australia and successful presentations in London and Paris. Oiwin's prestige made him a serious problem to Hal Walk's, Warners' production boss, and his able aide, Sam Bischoff. They owned the picture rights to the play. Warners had backed...
...contradicted the legend with their autobiographies, offering three pictures of those ceaseless struggles that revolve around books and that are fought with the weapons of reviews, debates, lectures, gossip. Gilbert Keith Chesterton wrote of his literary life with all the suavity and aplomb of a generous victor. Poet Edgar Lee Masters described his with all the bitterness of admitted defeat. Novelist Frank Swinnerton described some staggering setbacks with the doggedly hopeful air of a championship contender who does not know he has already been knocked out several times...
...schooling at St. Paul's, producing "on most of the masters and many of the boys ... a pretty well-founded conviction that I was asleep." He went to art school, suffered a period of religious despair and moral confusion before he emerged as a Catholic, an optimist, a poet, a radical, an art critic, and lecturer with a reputation as one of the wittiest men of his time...
Among the day's pleasures none brought the Vagabond more satisfaction than the lecture he attended at 4 this afternoon in Emerson. Mr. Conrad Aiken, poet, critic and novelist, one of the premier stylistic geniuses of our day, spoke under the auspices of the Morris Gray Fund...
...contains several poems on the War, including one of "dreams of a field afar," in which the poet thinks of his comrades in their graves while he is alive. But they, when I forgot and ran, Remembered and remain. It contains Housman's For My Funeral, which seems likely to endure as long as any of his work, and an epitaph for dead soldiers...