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Carl Clinton Van Doren '07, literary critic, editor of the Literary Guild, lecturer on American literature in Columbia University...
Mark Van Doren '14, his brother, critic, anthologist (World Anthology of Poetry...
Because Edward Hugh Sothern, 70-year-old Shakespearean trouper, refused to be interviewed by reporters from the Amarillo, Tex., News-Globe, editor Gene Howe, irascible critic of Mary Garden and Charles Augustus Lindbergh (TIME, June n, 1928, April i, 19-29) referred to Actor Sothern as a "pink-toed high-hatter." Advised the News-Globe: "Don't pay any of your good money to see him." From the stage, Actor Sothern announced that he was returning to the management the $500 he was to receive for the performance, saying: "My toes are not pink. This is the worst thing that...
Author Theodore Francis Powys, 54, is one of three brothers (John Cowper, 57; Llewellyn, 45), all writers, all married, all fond of walking, all clergyman's sons. When some of the Powys's were living in Manhattan a few years ago, Critic Paul Rosenfeld went to call. Said he afterwards : "What a relief to find literary people who have faces!" Author Theodore Francis likes winter weather, prefers villages to live in, believes in monotony. Other books: Fables, An Interpretation of Genesis, Mr. Weston's Good Wine, The House with the Echo...
...broad, ingenuous face, fond of beer, is 50, a bachelor. A native of Baltimore, he still lives there, edits The American Mercury when he comes (at least once a month) to Manhattan. He worked as reporter on various Baltimore newspapers, became editor of The Smart Set (1914-23) with Critic George Jean Nathan; of The American Mercury (1924). Said Nathan of Mencken: "I respect him, and am his friend, because he is one of the very few Americans I know who is entirely free of cheapness, toadyism and hypocrisy. . . . He is the best fighter I have ever...