Word: kept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cargo of ping-pong balls (a device actually adopted by Crooner Harry Richman & Aeronaut Dick Merrill; TIME, Sept. 14, 1936, et seq.). And there is a promise of native warmth when the plane plops down in the midst of peasant festivities in a Norse village. But neither promise is kept. Just as soon as they artfully can, the script writers haul the characters back to the familiar Manhattan night-club surroundings, and thenceforth the picture proceeds through the high & hackneyed jinks of a machine-made plot. Ethel Merman sings with her usual lid-off verve, like a hotcha stenographer...
...solemnly heaped up a bonfire of books, solemnly burned them to death. Among the victims of this auto-da-fé were the books of such great Germans as Thomas Mann, as well as such "unGerman" writers as Jack London, Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Judge Ben Lindsey. Drizzling skies kept the bonfire from blazing, but the smoke of it still stinks in democratic nostrils. Last week, with plans afoot for the next session of the International Congress of Book Publishers, to be held this year at Leipzig, 48 U. S. publishers held their noses as one man, decided to send...
...frail, 51-year-old Chicago poetess named Harriet Monroe persuaded 100 citizens to give $50 annually for a poetry magazine. Before her death last year she had kept Poetry in first place among U. S. poetry magazines for 25 years, exercised a powerful influence in literary movements, launched a score of new writers, written an autobiography scheduled for publication this spring. Last week in Chicago, the Renaissance Society opened an exhibition of the editorial papers she left to the University of Chicago. Largely made up of matters of historical interest-letters and manuscripts of Robert Frost, James Joyce, Willa Gather...
...Powers does a splendidly subdued, Brutus, and the painful deliberation that characterizes the here is acted to perfection. Indicative of his disinteredness and his freedom from fanaticism, he is kept in civilian dress, whereas most of the conspirators are in uniform. This is one of the skillful touches of presentation...
...onetime teacher of Stephen Etnier is Detroit's first-rate fantasist, John Carroll, whose place in the main stream of U. S. painting has always been a puzzle to pedants. During the last year Artist Carroll, who likes to ride with the Old Chatham Hunt Club, has been kept at his painting by his wife, Georgia, despite the acquisition of a fine white Irish hunter. Last week the Rehn Galleries hung a fresh collection of Carroll's diaphanous, warm, pink nudes, glinting pickaninny-like Negresses, superbly deft drawings. Done with less delicacy and more fire than usual were...