Word: vincent
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Elected. Dr. Preston A. Bradley, pastor of the Peoples Church of Chicago; to be president of the Izaak Walton League of America, of which he was a founder and director; succeeding Dr. George Edgar Vincent, retired president of the Rockefeller Foundation; in Chicago. Honorary president, reelected: Herbert Clark Hoover...
FATAL INTERVIEW-Edna St. Vincent Millay-Harper ($2). Now that Elinor Wylie is dead, Edna St. Vincent Millay has become by popular acclamation the foremost U. S. poetess. But Elinor Wylie had an unmistakably individual style; Edna St. Vincent Millay is distinguishable from the ruck of modern poets only by the uniformly high plane of her language, the clarity of her line. Like most of her fellows she is lyrical (i. e. plaintive). In this book of 52 sonnets love is all her plaint. Most tell of love lost, losing, or going out by the window; a few are hortatory...
...Author. Once mistress of a style faintly flippant, almost Dorothy-Parkeresque. Edna St. Vincent Millay has settled into seriousness. Still young (39) but not so young as she was, her line, her bobbed hair, tip-tilted nose have begun to "date." A Vassar girl, married (to Eugen Jan Boissevain), a Pulitzer Prize winner (1922), she has sought poetry and ensued it in many a book. Four years ago she wrote the libretto to Deems Taylor's opera, The King's Henchman, got as much praise as he did. Other books: Renascence and Other Poems, Figs from Thistles, Aria...
...past six years awarded 295 Fellowships. Last week, with no strings attached, $175,000 was handed out to 77 male and female Fellows. Average grant: $2,500. To China, Europe and Latin America they will go, some of them perhaps to try to emulate Poet Stephen Vincent Benet, who wrote John Brown's Body during his year abroad. Among the fellows: Author Maurice Hindus (Humanity Uprooted), Playwright-Director Em Jo Basshe (Earth), Author Walter Stanley Campbell (pseudonym Stanley Vestal), Poets Hart Crane and Genevieve Taggard, Painters Marsden Hartley and Ione Robinson, Sculptor Harold Cash (his second grant), Penologist Joseph...
...Saturday morning course directed by Musical Handyman Sigmund Spaeth over WJZ will have famed musical amateurs for teachers: Writer John Erskine last week, Aviator Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones this week, with Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Speaker Nicholas Longworth, Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay, Architect Kenneth Murchison and Artists Peter Arno and Neysa McMein mentioned as other possibilities...