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When in 1914 the first poems of Spoon River Anthology were published in Reedy's Mirror, U. S. poets, critics and plain readers felt that they were at last hearing an authentic U. S. voice. Few poems have had such an immediate and widespread influence. The book was translated into Italian, Spanish, French, Danish, German, Swedish and Japanese, was praised, parodied, attacked and widely sold (80,000 volumes in 1915-16). To a generation that had revolted against the superficial optimism, the stock poses of genteel poets, the 200-odd austere epitaphs of Spoon River were more than...
...Renaissance looked at their best, Mrs. Thomas has sketchily copied France's Diane de Poitiers, a German artist's Venus, naked except for picture hat and necklace, and a Botticelli model. Facing them, smart, stingy Queen Elizabeth of England, decked out to the ears, primps in a mirror, turns her back on the Spanish Armada...
...happy with her pleasant work, her sophisticated friends, her artful practice of dodging disagreeable situations. Lovely to look at, light and gracious. Lily "told no anecdotes about admirers, or humorous scrapes in which she herself appeared as a figure of good entertainment value; she did not take out her mirror and gaze, spellbound, at her own reflection; there was nothing consciously graceful about any of her gestures." This paragon of modern virtue fell in love with Lionel...
...offered Greta Garbo pinching a smartly painted penny and wearing for a hat a sauce pan from whose handle dangled a pair of eyeglasses. Mater Dolorosa was a hollow-cheeked Marlene Dietrich, with heart-shaped buckles on her suspenders, a phonograph record on her head, looking into a magnifying mirror...
...doctor to the Mirror, Walter Howey succeeds able Stanley Walker, whom Hearst hired away from the city desk of the New York Herald Tribune at a fancy price (TIME, Jan. 21). Hamstrung by the unfathomable Hearst way of doing things, Managing Editor Walker accomplished nothing, last week found himself transferred to the New York American. Meanwhile the Mirror remained the fourth largest newspaper in the land (circ. 560,000) and about the least respected...