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WHAT ARE YEARS -Marianne Moore-Macmillan ($1.50). The most accomplished poetess in the English-speaking world today is Marianne Moore, a greying, mobile-faced, almost reckless spinster, born in St. Louis, Mo. in 1887. She graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1909. She was an assistant in the New York Public Library from 1921-25. In 1924 her book of poems Observations received the $2,000 Dial award; and for five uninterruptedly happy years thereafter she served on the learnedly esthetic Dial's editorial staff. Since the Dial's demise in 1929, Miss Moore has picked up a microscopic...
...first three marriages were all to the same man, Playboy Morton McMichael Hoyt, brother of the late Poetess Elinor Wylie. Hoyt attracted attention in 1928 when, on a dare, he jumped off the liner Rochambeau into mid-Atlantic. Another Hoyt stunt: chopping up a whiskbroom, eating it with cream and sugar. He and Eugenia were divorced, twice remarried and divorced between...
...acute insight and poignant character interpretation, she portrays the Vassar girls you've met at House dances and chatted with on the lawns at Poughkeepsie. There's Flip, editor of the Vassar Review, who wants to write but isn't sure of her talent. Gary, once the child prodigy poetess, is now a harried girl facing expulsion for having tried to cheat her way into Phi Beta Kappa to fulfill her father's expectations. Jill, who is blonde and beautiful and brainless, wants the bright lights of the stage; Liz serious and restrained, wants the security of a wedding ring...
...Died. Poetess Aline Murray Kilmer, 53, widow of Poet Joyce Kilmer (Trees); in Stillwater...
...second Broadway appearance (her first was in last autumn's flop, The Romantic Mr. Dickens), sultry, handsome Diana Barrymore, daughter of The Profile and his second wife, Poetess Michael Strange, gives unmistakable signs of dramatic breeding, if not of dramatic royalty...