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Spring yesterday came to Harvard Square. While some people like Ellen Krohn '53 and Menso Boissevain '52 welcomed the new season in esthetic reverie, others turned to the more symbolic rituals to observe the vernal equinox...
...impudence of her second book of verse, A Few Figs from Thistles ("Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!"), she caught the popular ear, tasted fame. In 1923 she won a Pulitzer Prize and married Eugen Jan Boissevain, a wealthy importer. As her fame and royalties grew, her verse became milder, milkier and more conventionally romantic. In 1927, her The King's Henchman (score by Deems Taylor) was the Met's opera of the year and her published libretto went through four editions...
...leader, gave McKay a job reporting for her Workers' Dreadnought. Back in New York he became associate editor of The Liberator under Eastman, quarreled with the Reddest of his colleagues, received an office visit from Elinor Wylie, whose "beauty and Park Avenue elegance" flustered him terribly. At Eugen Boissevain's house he met Charlie Chaplin, who was chased one evening from room to room by a determined Harlem female admirer "coo-coo-cooing, just as if she were down home in the bushes." When a long-lost wife showed up, McKay eluded her by going to Russia...
...Author. Once mistress of a style faintly flippant, almost Dorothy-Parkeresque. Edna St. Vincent Millay has settled into seriousness. Still young (39) but not so young as she was, her line, her bobbed hair, tip-tilted nose have begun to "date." A Vassar girl, married (to Eugen Jan Boissevain), a Pulitzer Prize winner (1922), she has sought poetry and ensued it in many a book. Four years ago she wrote the libretto to Deems Taylor's opera, The King's Henchman, got as much praise as he did. Other books: Renascence and Other Poems, Figs from Thistles, Aria...
...Eugen Jan Boissevain (Edna St. Vincent Millay), poetess (Renascence and Other Poems, The King's Henchman, The Buck in the Snow), left "Steepletop," her home at Austerlitz, N. Y., to have some fun in Manhattan. She described her fun to the press: "Staying out until seven o'clock in the morning. It's just a round of 'pub-crawling.' Don't you like that word? I wish I had invented...