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...merely a skillful costume thriller. Its language is sometimes too high flown, its plot too intricate and too neat, to satisfy the exacting requirements of serious literature. But, it is among the best popular fictional accounts of the conquistadores that has appeared (less burdened with history than Edward Stucken's The Great White Gods), less exotic than Salvador de Madariaga's The Heart of Jade. As good reading, certain to take the minds of thousands of readers off their troubles for tens of thousands of hours, Captain from Castile is first rate...
Totalitarianism was seen in this country by Dr. Dirk H. Vain Der Stucken of Andover Academy who believed that we were giving "those inside" powers which might become dictatorial...
Columnist Walter Lippmann is scheduled to speak on "Our present Crisis" at the anniversary banquet which will also be addressed by Andre Morize, professor of French Literature, and by Dr. Dirk H. Van Der Stucken, commentator on international events...
Last week's Festival in no way let down Cincinnati's high traditions. The programs were for the most part ambitious and substantial. Brahms's great German Requiem came first in honor of the late Frank van der Stucken who for many years directed the Festival. Of the soloists, two from England made promising U. S. debuts-Tenor Walter Widdop and Contralto Muriel Brunkskill. Lily Pons, the Metropolitan's new French find, walked away with a program on which she sang three florid coloratura airs. But the hero for the duration of the five day Festival...
...members: Novelist Edith Wharton (second female to be elected, the first having been Poetess Julia Ward Howe, who died in 1910), Poet Robert Frost, Professor Irving Babbitt, Sculptor George Grey Barnard, Biographer James Truslow Adams; taking places left vacant by the deaths of Thomas Hastings, Frank V. van der Stucken, Arthur Twining Hadley, Brander Matthews, George Edward Woodberry. Corresponding members elected were Poet Sir William Watson, Poet Laureate John Masefield...