Word: willa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duhig, Chairman, and Dorothy M. Pohl; H. G. Burnett and Kathaleen Madden; C. W. Dupertuis and Willa Rickard; Edward Hall and Elizabeth Ewey; W. L. Molina and Jean Page; R. H. Weatherhead and Ethel White...
...must to all men--in the phraseology of "Time"--comes the opera season to the denizens of Greater Boston. It is a signal for many time honored customs: for Willa Jerdone and Betty Alden, experts on Society, to go quite, quite berserk in descriptions of what is being worn in the foyer; for the illustrators of department store advertisements to draw countless long necked and apparently under-nourished grande dames; for H. T. P. to polish off some terse enigmatic quips surmounted by the conventional H. T. P. headlines; for music stores to haul out dusty liberties; for discussions...
...notable fact that three of the ablest living writers of English prose are women. Few are the men who can rival Willa Cather, Virginia Wolf, and Elizabeth Madox Roberts; their work possesses a calmness, a surety, a technical excellence which places them above the crowd and which has earned for them a certain claim to timelessness. Each succeeding volume from their pens is received as a permanent addition-to English fiction and not, as is the deserved fate of so many other novelists, as merely and annual product, to be read, discussed, and immediately forgotten...
...Ugly Duchess THE UGLY DUCHESS?Lion Feuchtwanger (translated by Willa & Edwin Muir)?Viking...
DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCH-BISHOP?Willa Gather?Knopf ($2.50). A large part of Miss Gather's pre-eminence as a novelist is due to her ability as a scholar. Her offering for this season is more scholarly than creative?a reconstruction of the episcopal works of the first Roman Catholic bishop of her beloved New Mexico, Jean Marie Latour.* She draws him with esthetic reverence, an immaculate conception of a missionary in buckskins who, lost and athirst in the desert, still retained elegance, distinction and "a kind of courtesy toward himself, toward his beasts, toward the juniper tree before...