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...doubtless the foremost candidates, with a few critics ranking California's Robinson Jeffers ahead of either. Robert Frost and Edwin Arlington Robinson are other candidates from New England. Carl Sandburg is the Midwest's best voice. Vachel Lindsay catches the whole jingle of American speech, and Stephen Vincent Benet caught last year's Pulitzer Prize. Last week at Columbia University a candidate for U. S. Poet was proposed who was no U. S. citizen, who never visited America or wrote about it, but whose works every schoolboy is supposed to know-John Milton...
When Composer Joseph Deems Taylor collaborated with Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay on the opera The King's Henchman in 1927, their work evoked such acclaim that Composer Taylor was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera to do another. First he worked on Heywood Broun's allegorical Candle Follows His Nose, dropped it, set to work on Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning Street Scene. In November 1929, he shelved that, went into seclusion at his home eight miles from Stamford, Conn, for a third start. Last week he emerged, announced that "by the grace of God" he had finished libretto...
...sultry grey days without sun and days when light airs rolled the sea into innumerable gay reflections of summer, the America's Cup yachts sailed their first official trials off Newport, R. I. On Vincent Astor's Nourmahal the skippers met and sat around a table while Commodore Astor drew four slips of paper out of a hat, each with the name of a yacht on it. It had been decided that yacht A would race B the first day, and C the second, D the third, with the order changing correspondingly for the other boats in each race. Three...
Engaged. Richard Norrls Williams II, 38, a widower since April 1929, U.S. tennis singles champion in 1914 and 1916, national doubles champion (with Vincent Richards) in 1925 and 1926, many times a member of Davis Cup teams (captain in 1923); and Miss Frances West Gillmore, Manhattan socialite...
...away before he could capture them on paper. Last week came news of an invention to enable affluent pianists to compose at ease, to capture transient beauty before it eludes memory. The device: "Music Writer." The inventor: Dr. Moritz Stoehr, professor of bacteriology at Mount St. Vincent College, N. Y. The principle: same as the typewriter. Dr. Stoehr has labored on his invention for twelve years, earning at last the praise of no less a maestro than Josef Willem Mengelberg...