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...Davis, who is now recovering from a protracted illness at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital. Washington society was ready to believe that another factor had also weighed. There is a persistent report that Alice Davis, the new Governor's oldest daughter, is informally engaged to marry Allan Hoover, the President's younger...
...encyclopedia, wherein the seeker may find any trend or individual expression in modern U. S. sculpture. There is, inevitably, much routine work-conventionally graceful garden groups, conventionally austere memorials to Generals and Admirals. But there are female torsos by Alexander Archipenko, possessor of an arresting linear imagination; there are Allan Clark's glamorous oriental shapes; Harriet Whitney Frishmuth's tender and charming studies of adolescence; Jacob Epstein's mottled, vigorous countenances; Paul Manship's images of swift, hound-escorted Diana and Actacon. Many are the stimuli for the senses, but nowhere is the mind so provoked...
...circulation among scholars and general readers. The new project at Duke enters upon a fertile and comparatively little worked field. A journal, devoted solely to research in American letters can easily find its scope of service. The coming first number with its articles on Sydney Lanter, Bret Harte, Edgar Allan Poe reveals the type of work to be expected. An awakening of national self-consciousness in American literature in a movement disconnected from the Sherwood Anderson-Sinclair Lewis school will be welcomed as a distinct addition. With such academic recognition for the history of native writing as a start...
Photographer Henry Sharp, Director Allan (Robin Hood) Dwan, and Costume Designer Maurice Leloir, who has illustrated the best printed edition of Dumas, supply that scrupulous historical detail which has always made Fairbanks pictures an improvement, for U. S. audiences, on the work of romantic authors. Better also than Dumas, rhythm and comedy are by Fairbanks. He has fought victoriously with life some inner battle which for most people ends in defeat. Middle age has failed to slow up his body. He enables audiences of all ages to study what it is that makes boys the real superiors of grownups...
...Married. Allan A. Ryan Jr., Manhattan broker, grandson of the late great Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan; and Janet Newbold, Washington socialite, daughter of Business Manager Fleming Newbold of the Washington Evening Star; in Washington...