Word: transcripts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Poet-Critic Louis Untermeyer went through Dr. Merrill Moore's filing cabinet, he counted approximately 25,000 idiomatic, hybrid or "American" sonnets. Some were bad, some good; some had been printed in Walter Winchell's column, some had appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript, some in Harriet Monroe's Poetry: A Magazine oj Verse. To conceive of the tremendous industry that could turn out 25,000 sonnets, says Mr. Untermeyer, "one must think of the author as a pundit, an immured octogenarian, devoting all his hours to the fashioning and perfecting of his flexible models...
Under the headline "Burlesque Judicially Held Not Art," "Fofo Wins $2500 for Minsky Display," the "Boston Evening Transcript" supplied its jaded readers a few weeks ago with one of the year's most stimulating bits of reporting. The woes of a Greek tragedienne, Fofo Louka, whose picture was displayed in the lobby of the Park Theater "surrounded by photographs of 'scantily attired' females," were recounted in most sympathetic fashion...
Judge Charles L. Carr whose decision in the case displayed an admirable understanding of the philosophical background of the law, shared the chivalric attitude of the "Transcript." Remarking that "this court can not shut its eyes" to the unartistic character of the burlesque profession, he sustained the contention of Miss Louka's attorney, Mr. Harris G. Booras, that her reputation might be injured by the alleged display...
...ballots, the unorthodox ballot boxes, and the unusual expense involved in their arrangements. Concerning the recount, no adequate explanation has yet been offered of the reasons for the recount, the failure to notify or obtain authorization from the Council, and the final unfortunate release of the results to the Transcript without any consultation...
...were appointed to direct the election, concerning their management of the Voting and the recount. They will probably explain why they decided to hold the recount, why they did not inform the Council that it was contemplated or in progress, and why they released the results to the Transcript without informing any College authority...