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...intimated in Minneapolis in April, before the awards were announced, that his Committee had voted the novel prize to John Rathbone Oliver's Victim and Victor. The advisory board, whose decision is final, had gone over this vote in selecting Scarlet Sister Mary. No criticism came from Dr. Burton of the decision...
...court chamberlain and court steward, bowing low before Majesty. Chamberlain and steward backed into the room. Entered the Queen of England, ablaze with diamonds, wearing a "white and gold gown with an overdress of changeable pastel shades," as fashion technicians described it. Holding her firmly by the hand was scarlet-coated Edward of Wales, his uniform collar embroidered with the wild onion of the Welsh Guards. Prince Edward led his mother to the single throne on the dais, bowed, took his place in the brilliant family circle of his brothers, his sister, his uncles and his aunts...
Julia Peterkin, for the best U. S. novel (Scarlet Sister Mary, published by Bobbs. Merrill, reviewed in TIME, Dec. 31), received $1,000. Author also of Green Thursday and Black April, Mrs. Peterkin uses all-Negro characters. She. white, is the wife of a South Carolina planter. She did not begin to write till...
...paintings was a Crucifixion, painted by Piero della Francesca (circa 1406-92) on a tiny wood panel (14" x 16"). Into a golden sky, grievously cracked with age, were lifted the cross, the scarlet banners of the soldiery. Humans and horses were drawn with that rude simplicity of Italian Primitives which is pronounced charming by modern sophisticates. This painting, according to gallery officials, had been appraised by experts at $800,000. The other, a similarly styled Madonna and Child by Fra Filippo Lippi (circa 1406-69), was said to have been appraised...
Editor Pew had a report to make on Canton: "I can tell you tonight, because I have seen it with my own eyes within a fortnight, that Canton is still, this minute, cursed by a tenderloin - a loathsome well-identified district of vice and crime where the scarlet woman plies her trade, where the illicit traffic continues and where dope may or may not be sold. I am told that the Federal authorities (not local police) have latterly fairly well stopped the narcotic traffic. The mayor of Canton is C. C. Curtis, elected by the people since the death...