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Three native operas besides The Emperor Jones will soon be on the market. Merry Mount, an opera dealing with the conflict between Puritans and Cavaliers, will be given by the Metropolitan season after next. Rochester's Howard Hanson wrote the music, Richard Leroy Stokes, critic of the defunct New York Evening World, the libretto. In Paris Alonzo (godsgate) Elliott, the Aleman who wrote "There's a Long, Long Trail,"- is busy making an opera out of Laurence Stallings & Maxwell Anderson's riproaring What Price Glory? In Vienna Composer Robert Russell Bennett (Kansas City) will spend the summer...
...loves with a love based on understanding. The Britisher who builds his concrete house first and then bores holes in it for pipes and wiring, who decides to repair a highway on the day before a bank holiday receives no 'pooh-poohing' ridicule at his hands, only honest criticism. But his love does not carry him away to an optimism which will deny the possibility of Britain descending to the status of a lesser power, nor does it inspire him with the sort of Anglophilism which says that the English gentleman is the highest example of human civilization...
...title essay and that on "The Critic and American Life" bear a marked similarity. Professor Babbitt tells the present age that it is denying standards, repudiating, as did the earliest romanticists, the Christian and humanist traditions. Untraditional as we believe ourselves today, we are as confused as any men of a century ago. We are the victims of a "jazzy impressionism;" "still", he admits, "our naturalistic deliquescence has probably not gone so far as one might infer from poetry like that of Mr. Sandburg or fiction like that of Mr. Dos Passos." When one reads the ponderous latinities into which...
Basically Professor Babbitt's criticism is the same as it was some years ago, but Mencken is out of fashion, and his remarks mean far less to the contemporary student and critic than Professor Babbitt would have us believe. Essays on the primitivism of Wordsworth, on Coleridge and Dr. Johnson and the imagination, are studies more immediately interesting to the student of literature. Professor Lowes comes in for his share of criticism in the former essay, and Professor Carpenter is nicked once in the course of the book. All in all, however, they fare better than do Rebecca West...
Norman Hapgood, onetime editor of Collier's Weekly, Harper's Weekly, Hearst's International, Envoy Extraordinary &; Minister Plenipotentiary to Denmark under President Wilson, dramatic critic, author, turned himself into a radio announcer, to advertise the soups of Columbia Conserve Co., famed for its conversion by the Hapgood clan into a social ized industry where employes own 51% of the common stock (TIME, July...