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...fluttery doggerel is as American as a Mississippi drawl and as tempting to imitate. Last week reviewers were tempted to another outburst of meterless, rhyme-twisting verse by the appearance of Nash's fifth book of poems, The Primrose Path. In that outburst they were led by Critic John Chamberlain of the New York Times, who turned out a whole re-view in Nashiana. Excerpts...
Newest of topflight U. S. literary critics is the Times's Chamberlain. Some months ago a lady who admired his column called at his office, found a diffident young man, with an armful of books, who looked about 26. Gasped the lady: "Are you Mr. Chamberlain?" Actually Critic Chamberlain is 31 and ten years out of Yale, where he chairmanned the funny Yale Record. The Times got him after he had spent one year in an advertising agency, kept him as newshawk and associate editor of the Sunday Book Review until 1933. In the autumn of that year Publisher...
Kirsten Flagstad, 38, a new import from Norway, whose first Isolde won reams of praise last week. Critic Lawrence Gilman of the Herald Tribune called her performance "one of the rarest of our time." Even Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt stood in her box and cheered...
...Author is young (33) but considered by many a critic the most portentous cloud on the French literary horizon. A brilliant writer, he is no worker in enamel. His rare epigrams ("Youth is a religion which, in the long run, a man has always to retract") are the only tricolorations in his style. The world he writes of, in terms of savagery, torture, bloodshed, is too death-ridden to be neat...
Haskins was the president of the Critic and is a member of the Advocate board and the Signet Society. Both he and Barber are graduates of Exeter...