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...poetry of St.-Joan Perse (Alexis Leger). As a woman Elizabeth Madox Roberts has her principal strength, her ultimate weakness. Her strength is an exquisite sensitiveness to the subtlest personal emotions, and to the quieter values of a well-executed prose. Her weakness is a sort of thin though sentient primness; a love of the archaic for its own sake...
...mind, while still definitely solemn, had been improved by the tranquillity of his surroundings, his gardens, the view from his window of the quiet Coast Range and placid San Francisco Bay. But Herbert Hoover had not returned to Palo Alto to dodder his days away. Like many another sentient Californian, he had felt the restrictions of the Golden State's isolation, and to keep in touch with the rest of the nation he had evolved a comprehensive, businesslike system which now keeps two stenographers and a pair of secretaries busy. Mrs. Dare Starck McMullin, an old friend...
...held. Last May, when the world was in an uproar over Charles Augustus Lind- bergh's flight, Helen Keller had been informed of the incredible fact with frenzied nudges, incoherent pummelings. Now she was able to picture to herself the plane caroming through the darkness above the sea. Her sentient fingers touched the tiny mountain range that led across her page. Now he was over the green meadows of Ireland. Helen Keller smiled. When he landed, she could imagine herself hearing those cheers in a Paris twilight...
...House of Women. Louis Bromfield has won repute as a novelist, which his disciples hope will not be damned by faint plays. Novelist became dramatist last week with a theatricalization of his story The Green Bay Tree. This transference was achieved under the sentient auspices of Arthur Hopkins,* and brought to life upon the stage by such luminaries as Elsie Ferguson and Nance O'Neil. The whole was considerably smaller than the sum of the parts; the general verdict blamed the play...
...Story.* A blocky little figure whose slightly protruding eyes and lower lip are redeemed from plainness by an ample brow and roguish smile, born in 1706, becomes sentient about 1718. He is the young- est of a Massachusetts chandler's 17 children; cheerful, robust, precocious. He dares let himself be towed across a pond by his kite. He reads Locke, Defoe and the Spectator?authors of the Age .of Reason ?besides Pilgrim's Progress and Plutarch. His publisher-brother is jailed for sensational articles in the New England Courant. Aged 17, the apprentice printer and anonymous author...