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Poet Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (Rhymes to be Traded for Bread, The Congo, General William Booth Enters Heaven), famed in his home town of Springfield, Ill. as much for civic enthusiasm as for poetry, recently backed the city's campaign for a lake to augment an inadequate water supply, by writing a signed and widely-circulated voters' bulletin. Excerpts: "You speculate on the practical uses of Lake Springfield. . . . The next afternoon you are inclined to loaf, take the trip over the Lake Springfield trail. . . . Climb into the family bus and hit the trail. . . . Linger through the evening. Watch...
...Conference", anonymous, J. W. Norcross '32; "Woolsey's Farewell" by Shakespeare, H. C. Friend '31: "The New South" by H. W. Grady, G. E. Lodgen '32: "The Passing of Arthur" by Tennyson, J. L. Ware '30: "The Bishop Orders his Tomb" by Browning, M. F. Loewenstein '32: "Bryan" by Vachel Lindsay, D. D. Lloyd '31: Selection from "John Brown's Body" by Benet, Abbot Peterson...
EVERY SOUL Is A CIRCUS-Vachel Lind-say-Macmillan ($2.75). "Now in the fiftieth year of my age comes my revolt. I come roaring forth with a book which is the opposite of little Rollo and little Lucy." Perhaps Poet Lindsay never said quite the same thing before, but the blatant tone of voice is unmistakably his. He is a hell-raiser whose hair is never brushed; like his latest book, he is "aggressive, however sinful and full of pride." Two good poems appear-one an old-style Lindsay chantey, "The Virginians Are Coming Again," and "Twenty Years...
...Symphony Orchestra for this afternoon and tomorrow night at Symphony Hall, Serge Koussevitzky will offer one novel selection, Gruenberg's Symphony Poem, "Enchanted Isle" Gruenberg is a Russian, born in 1885, now living and working in New York, best known in American concert halls by a swirling setting of Vachel Lindsay's "Daniel Jazz...
They'd flowers in front of your picture, Vachel...