Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action of Mr. Kingsley's play, however, closes in 1927. In Ten Million Ghosts, Sir Basil Zaharoff is transformed into ''Zacharey'' (George Coulouris). France's great steel & armaments association, the Comite des Forges, is called "Universe Forges Inc." A young French poet named Andre (Orson Welles) is in love with Madeleine de Kruif (Barbara O'Neil). He becomes a War aviator, goes to the Briey sector in 1917, when the secret machinations of the munitioneers are in full swing. Forbidden to bomb the mines, he understands the reason from the conversations of Zacharey...
...Unexpected Years, which, although it told the story of his theatrical successes, presented him as a liberal, good-natured individual, was of literary significance only for its few glimpses of A. E. Housman and of the family background of the brothers. More light on the character of the poet was to be found in a brief sketch, primarily devoted to A. E. Housman's achievements as a scholar, by one of his Cambridge associates. Seventy-two of the 137 pages in A. E. Hoisman are given over to a list of the poet's scattered writing; the remainder...
...First Folio was formerly owned by Frederick Locker-Lamson, the English poet, and contains most of Shakespeare's works. The frontispiece bears an engraving of the great dramatist, as do all of the first four Folios. This engraving has always been an object of ridicule by those who hold to the theory that Bacon wrote the works accredited to Shakespeare. These Baconians claim that the picture is nothing more than a mask, a back, and two left arms. Ben Jonson, however, according to all true Shakespearians, refutes this definitely in his verse which accompanies in his verse which accompanies...
...BELLS OF BASEL-Louis Aragon- Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Uneven but interesting novel by a famed French poet who was once a leader in the Dada and surrealist movements. Laid in pre-War France, it deals with the careers of a fashionable courtesan, a rebellious daughter of a Russian émigré, a revolutionist, includes some vivid scenes of social corruption, some dim ones of social conflict...
...BURNING CACTUS - Stephen Spender - Random House ($2). Five short stories by an English poet, recording the suffering pulsations of sensitive young men-all strangely alike in temperament - in contemporary France, Spain, Italy, England and Austria at the time of the assassination of Dollfuss...