Word: poet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Broadcasting Co. prides itself on never letting the Columbia Broadcasting System get ahead of it. In the opinion of many a serious student of U. S. drama, ahead is just where CBS got last April when its skilful experimental Workshop of the Air produced Poet Archibald MacLeish's The Fall of the City. It was the most competent U. S. verse play written for the radio and, setting aside the beauty of its speech and the power of its story, The Fall of the City, as produced by oldtime Radio Engineer Irving Reis, added some new dimensions...
...Maxwell Anderson and Stephen Vincent Benet. Playwright Anderson's The Feast of Ortolans, an historical drama about a party of 18th Century French intellectuals who haggle about the Revolution right up to the moment the Revolution walks in the door, is to be given next month. Last week Poet Benet's show, an operetta based on Washington Irving's A Legend of Sleepy Hollow, had its radio premiere over NBC's Blue Network. Consensus was that artistically, CBS still had the bulge...
...cared for. Mrs. Findlay, then a girl of ten, was leaning over the officer's bed when he recovered consciousness. She helped nurse him back to health. The captain was the late Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. It was at the little girl's house that Poet Oliver Wendell Holmes found his son after the search described in his famed My Hunt after the Captain. As a Supreme Court Justice he often visited Mrs. Findlay, said that her face as a little girl was the most beautiful he had ever seen. Last week, Mrs. Findlay gave...
...deaf to cadge charitable upkeep) to appear during the past three years, one Charles Burton of Altoona. Pa., had been punished by law, then killed by a motorcar. They pointed with pride to the deaf-mutes who make high mark in the world today-Sculptor Elmer A. Hannon, Poet Howard Leslie Terry, blind Pianist Helen May Martin, Dancers Charlotte & Charles Lamberton, Dentist A. H. Clancy of Cincinnati, Broker Samuel Frankenheim of Manhattan, Research Librarian Elizabeth McLeod of the New York Public Library, President Arthur Lawrence Roberts of the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf (a $2,000,000 insurance company...
Divorced. Prof. William Ellery Leonard, 61, poet, English Professor at the University of Wisconsin, famed for the "phobic prison" which keeps him within a few blocks of the University; by Grace Golden Leonard, 29; in Madison. Wis. Soon after they were married in June 1935, Prof. Leonard announced that his wife had taken him by the hand and led him out of the six-block area in which he had been held by agoraphobia. The cure was only temporary. A year ago Mrs. Leonard obtained a divorce, later had the decree set aside. The grounds were the same...