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...their boots. To prove it, he wrote his True History of the Conquest of New Spain, which remains the best first-hand story of the great conquistadors. From this first-hand material Poet MacLeish has developed an exciting, 2,000-line narrative poem. His terza rima stanzas have no rhyme, but instead a subtle assonance. The story opens with Cortes' embarkation at Santiago de Cuba for the west, against the command of Velasquez, the Spanish Governor. Across the Gulf, in the teeth of Velasquez' organized opposition, they work their way to Cempoala on the Mexican coast. Here...
...career in Europe had the same twists- she danced in the Diaghilev ballet, was later featured in two UFA cinemas. Before that, she had grown up in Russia, won a dancing contest in Petrograd at 17. She is now 23, pronounces her name with a soft G, to rhyme with...
...racily conversational prose-puncher, a "critic" who makes you stop, look & listen by the amusing mock-violence of her own irrelevant reactions, Mrs. Parker has written, in Laments for the Living, some first-rate dialogs. But when her climate curdles her to rhyme, her curtness often turns to slightly acidulous whey. Poetess Parker's ideas can usually be contained in a quatrain though she often lets them wander farther. Death and Taxes has a few neat quatrains...
Died. Ralph Barton, 39, caricaturist and satirist (Science in Rhyme Without Reason, God's Country); by his own hand (revolver); in Manhattan. Four times married - to Marie Jennings, Anna Minerly, Actress Carlotta Monterey (now married to Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill) and French Composer Germaine Tailleferre-he was four times divorced. Last week he left a statement headed "Obit" which said: "I have run from wife to wife, from house to house, from country to country in a ridiculous effort to escape from myself. ... In particular, my remorse is bitter over my failure to appreciate my beautiful lost...
Whoa, TIME! stay your hand a bit! Dip your pen in the sand a bit. That rhyme about Cervantes...