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...Professor Baker in 1925 accepted Yale's offer to run its luxurious new $125,000 theatre and drama school. He retired in 1933. Some Baker students: Eugene O'Neill, Philip Barry, Sidney Howard, Winthrop Ames, Robert Edmond Jones, Robert Benchley, Rollo Peters, Percy Mackaye, Donald Oenslager, Van Wyck Brooks...
...LETTERS OF GAMALIEL BRADFORD -Edited by Van Wyck Brooks-Houghton Mifflin ($4.50). Companion volume to the Journal of the late patriotic litterateur...
...nude bathing in a New Haven, Conn, reservoir. Oliver & Charles Brooks, sons of austere Critic Van Wyck Brooks, were arrested, fined...
THREE ESSAYS ON AMERICA-Van Wyck Brooks-Dutton...
...disapproving silence, but criticism as a profession is not crowded with leaders. Thoughtful U. S. citizens, dazed by the soundless flicker of statistics, deafened by the screams of professional iconoclasts, lulled by the thin whisper of unco-highbrows, should be grateful for the reassuringly human voice of Critic Van Wyck Brooks. He is known by the minority that reads him as a sound, tonic, unacademic observer whose interest in the tall trees of literary criticism has not blinded him to the more important U. S. forest. These Three Essays on America, originally published separately (1915, 1918, 1921), are as pertinent...