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Some Chicagoans still think that President Hutchins' manner has hurt the University, that the town might have done more for the gown during Depression if he had been a bit more mellow. Friends and philosophers, however, are glad that Bob Hutchins has escaped the fate which Critic Carl Van Doren ascribes to Author Christopher Morley: "He got mellow before he got ripe...
Married. Robert Emmet Sherwood, 39. lanky playwright (Reunion in Vienna, The Petrified Forest), longtime cinema critic; and Madeline Hurlock Connelly, 35. divorced wife of his good friend Playwright Marc Connelly (The Green Pastures); in Budapest. The marriage was Mr. Sherwood's second, his wife's third...
...short prefatory note to the new edition of Miss Wurdemann's Bright Ambush. . . . Such as that Mr. Auslander is "a lyric, not to say a complaining, poet" is to me an entirely uncalled-for, not to say an utterly unmeaning line. I could cite complaint, as your critic understands the term-or appears to understand it-in every fine poet since and including Shakespeare. Any adverse comment on existence might be so cited as a "complaint." The "complaint" in Dante and in Milton must indeed be enormous! The whole thing is laughable, if it were not so unjust...
...people of Orange, Tex. were in their beds when into the Silver Slipper roadhouse strode a 6 ft. 2 in., 220 lb. man brandishing two pistols and displaying a Texas Ranger's badge. The Orange revelers recognized him as Rev. Edgar Eskridge, 40, hard-hitting Baptist crusader, stern critic of local law enforcement...
Died, Sarah Haardt Mencken, 37, essayist, novelist (The Making of a Lady), wife of famed Baltimore Critic H. L. Mencken; after long illness; in Baltimore...