Word: poetesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...benefit for the fecund. Within a few hours M. Boverat had obtained a police order barring Miss Warner from dancing at the Bagdad. Next he got her indicted "for an offense against the public's sense of shame.'' No attempt, however, was made to stop the Poetess of Naked Rhythm from appearing at frankly bawdy Paris music halls outside which the public was expected to park its sense of shame. More popular than ever. Miss Warner has been cashing in on her indictment all winter, banking the wages of dirt, and appearing at numerous night clubs...
...citron presse appeared Miss Warner in a clinging, translucent gown, her hands manacled at the wrists, her mien intense. She had invented her "Slave Dance" after being distanced by the competition of Fan Dancer Sally Rand at Chicago's Century of Progress and now considered herself "The Poetess of Naked Rhythm." To the Boverat family it appeared that a blonde hussy had suddenly interrupted their tea. She startled them further by rapidly removing what seemed to be all her clothes, casting off her manacles with a bang, and spinning her long legs in an expert cartwheel scarce five feet...
...note of sadness and concern. Hospitable and urbane, Author Bynner has among his 70 guests a Communist and a patriot, a liar, a painter, a hostess, a debutante, a bachelor, maintains the same good manners, the same ironic detachment toward all. A depthless scorn is revealed only for the poetess who "would have ordered God from the front door if he had come in clothes that meant the back." Literary detectives may believe they recognize originals like Amy Lowell and D. H. Lawrence in Author Bynner's portraits, may think they have spotted Robinson Jeffers as Jeremiah...
ELINOR WYLIE-Nancy Hoyt-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). An intimate biography of the late poetess by her lower-browed sister...
Founders' Day Speaker at Wheaton College, Norton, Mass. was Author William Rose Benét. His subject: Poetess Elinor Wylie, his late fragile wife, who composed whole poems without pencil or paper and died in 1928 from the effects of falling downstairs. Declared Mr. Benét: "No photograph can recapture the distinction of her actual appearance, the strange, unforgettable beauty, the remote fastidiousness, the shy, almost scared aloofness followed on the instant by some impulsive gesture of affection or the kindling of her expressive face to some enthusiasm. She made the most diverse impressions upon people met casually...