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This afternoon at 2 o'clock the Vagabond will appear in humble mood to hear Mr. DeVoto on Willa Cather. (Sever...
...noon, in a room heavy with perspiration and heat and flowers and human emotion, they and the visitors from Lincoln wedged themselves to hear the list of those who had received degrees. Among those honored was a frail young girl from Virginia. "Willa Sibert Cather," called the voice from the platform...
...Vermilion, Ohio (pop. 1,464) one evening last week, neither the poetry of Robert Browning nor the novels of Willa Cather were uppermost in the minds of Mrs. Marvell Snyder, wife of the school superintendent, or Mrs. Bessie Roscoe, wife of the Vermilion News editor, as they finished the supper dishes and hurried around to the home of Mrs. Zella English, wife of the Congregational minister. Occasion was a meeting of the Sorosis Club, Vermilion's select female literary-social organization. For the past five months culture had been almost forgotten as the Sorosis Club and all Vermilion rocked...
...Lost Lady (First National). That last week's major murder case was named after An American Tragedy was due less to Author Theodore Dreiser's novel than to the moving picture of it. A Lost Lady will not give the U. S. public a favorable impression of Willa Gather. Adapted from one of the few authentic masterpieces in U. S. fiction, it is a collection of stock situations which resemble neither the original nor anything else, except previous Hollywood false alarms. Worst shot: Barbara Stanwyck gardening in high heels...
...popular as The Last of the Mohicans (it will never be a juvenile), but that would not necessarily mean it was a less worthy book. Even Cooper-addicts will admit that Author Stone has done a first-rate job. Her admirers will compare The Cold Journey favorably with Willa Gather's Shadow on the Rock...