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...theirs is the hardest assignment, and that they are less of an anathema than they are is a minor triumph. Top honors in the cast must go to the female sex; Wynn Murray, as Luce, is grand both in her songs and in her interpretation of comedy; Mary Wescott, as Luciana, is likeable though her voice is a bit thin compared to the others; supreme in looks and in singing is Muriel Angelus, as Adriana. Too much cannot be said in her praise, for her appearance is a delight to the eyes and her voice a treat to the ears...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 11/8/1938 | See Source »

Wales scholarship, to Jay B. Wescott 2G, of Ypsilanti, Michigan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arts and Sciences Funds | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...Previous winners: Margaret Wilson's The Able McLaughlins, Anne Parrish's The Perennial Bachelor, Glenway Wescott's The Grandmothers, Julian Green's The Dark Journey, Robert Raynold's Brothers in the West, Paul Horgan's The Fault of Angela, H. L. Davis' Honey in the Horn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Run | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...reading that of May 15, 1936, on the U. S. Balance of International Payments. Like TIME, it is clear, curt, complete; essential reading for the alert citizen who wants to know the facts. The boost for Foreign Policy Association is merely incidental: I am not a member. RALPH W. WESCOTT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 5, 1937 | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

SUNS Go DOWN-Flannery Lewis- Macmillan ($2). Excellent characterization, recalling the tender humor of Glenway Wescott's The Grandmothers, of the author's doughty, imaginative, 90-year-old grandmother, "the first decent white woman in the Comstock District." A vivid piece of Americana covering the era of Virginia City, Nev., from its fabulous boom days of 40,000 families to its present ghostly desertion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Mar. 29, 1937 | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

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