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HOMECOMING-Floyd Dell-Farrar & Rinehart ($3). Generations push each other too fast to allow youth to grow old gracefully or without hurting somebody's feelings. Some 20 years ago-a mere wink of time -Floyd Dell was a promising young writer, one of the literary Lochinvars who came out of the West to startle Chicago and Greenwich Village into a romantic revival. When he wrote Moon-Calf (1920), an autobiographical novel, thousands of adolescent readers found him excitingly like themselves. Sometime practicer of "free love," an editor of the old Masses, a pillar of the Provincetown Players, Floyd Dell...
...this time Floyd Dell "was, and remained incurably. romantic about women." He had had his first serious love affair before he left Davenport, his first marriage before he left Chicago. Like a theme-song through his reminiscences runs the refrain: "And then I fell in love again." Dell and his inamoratas usually parted friends. ''We both cried a little when we said goodbye. We told each other how happy we had been. Like frightened and lonely children, we kissed and parted." All this gave him something of a reputation among his fellow-bohemians. and even began to scare...
...Floyd Dell and his wife, still married, have left an unpleasantly post-War Greenwich Village behind them, live, as post-graduate bohemians now. at Croton-on-Hudson...
Colonel Charles R. Apted '06, Superintendent of Caretakers and of the Yard Police, claims to know the whereabouts of the clapper of the Memorial Hall dell, which disappeared mysteriously a year ago last spring. This was the clapper in behalf of which the class of 1935 stag-its riot in Harvard Square. Rumor has it that the clapper now reposes in the Princeton Club of New York...
First of the summer operas was Aïda with Anne Roselle and Frederick Jagel of Manhattan's Metropolitan, Giuseppe Martino-Rossi and about 150 other voices on the Dell's 60 ft. stage. Footlights, border lights, electric towers, side spotlights and a "traveling moon" made the shell look to some listeners like an opera-lover's Fourth of July. Philadelphians looked forward to seven more operatic productions including Traviata, Faust, and Rigoletto. Next year. Conductor Smallens promised to have stage facilities adequate for Wagner...