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...American culture of this age, in the eyes of future generations, will be the folk arts, such as posters, billboards, and movies," said Thornton Wilder, well-known author, to a CRIMSON reporter, yesterday. "Apparently a cultural aristocracy of some 50,000 people, which feeds itself on the echoes of European education, is dictating our literature and arts, but as in past ages it will undoubtedly be the contributions of the large mass of the people which survive...
...Because of our industrial development," Mr. Wilder continued, "our culture will naturally be different. Let's examine the movies. Of course, the big stars such as Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford are just figureheads; they do not express real people in any sense of the word. it is in minor starts, such as Zasu Pitts, Guy Kibbee, and Marie Dressler, when she is tened down, that you find American types expressed. As a comparison, you may remember that Hogarth was considered a minor artist when he was actually painting...
Elmer Richard Best '36 and Howard Buton Jaffee '36 have been awarded jointly the Elizabeth Wilder prize, given each year to the Freshman who, without any previous knowledge of German, writes the best paper in the mid-year examination. The prize, which is $150, was so closely contested this year that the Committee did not feel warranted to make a choice between the two winners...
Each mongrel generation has grown wilder and more cunning. Hated for their destruction of game, they are also feared because an outbreak of rabies among them might ravage the whole district. As their next move, New Jersey sportsmen last week planned to set steel wolf traps through the Ramapos...
...vigorous exertions. J. Hubert Stevens is an expert aviator, golfer, outboard motorboat racer. Curtis is good at golf and motorboating, prefers the latter. Raymond Stevens pitched ably on the 1914 Yale baseball team. Every autumn all four Stevens brothers spend two months hunting and trapping in the Adirondacks or wilder Canada. Other expert U. S. bobbers are Henry ("Hank") Homburger, Saranac, N. Y., civil engineer; Eddie Eagan, famed amateur boxer; Baron Walther von Mumm, onetime "champagne king" of Rheims; Jay O'Brien, Manhattan socialite...