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Because The Nation, left-wing weekly, had come out for U. S. rearmament, veteran Liberal Oswald Garrison Villard,* longtime (1918-33) editor & owner, since 1933 a weekly contributor, resigned. Wrote he in a valedictory article last week: ". . . America is to be safeguarded, not by guns and warships that may be rendered valueless overnight by new inventions and new tactics, but only by greater economic and industrial wisdom, by social justice, by making our democracy work." Said Nation Editor Freda Kirchwey: "It frightens me to read such articles. They represent, to my mind, a danger more present than Fascism...
John Dos Passos, William Saroyan. Her backers have been much impressed by two eminent French appraisals of Marianne Oswald : "She is an actress of song. She has a kind of bestial ugliness. But beauty passes, as they say, and the art of this ugly child will remain."-Colette...
...Oswald, miming for all she was worth, hoarsely sang about stars in the sky, a hungry man, a family with 15 children, a man hearing sounds in the night, a child escaping from a reformatory. In one number she was accompanied by a harpist as curvesome as the treble clef: beauteous Daphne, wife of socialite Editor Harry Adsit Bull of Town & Country...
Born in Lorraine, Marianne Colin took her stage name from a stage character she much admired, unhappy Oswald in Ibsen's Ghosts. For her, not only Cocteau but Andre Gide, Louis Aragon, Arthur Honegger, Maurice Yvain have written songs...
...summer, observed, in her apprehensive English: "I walk through the streets and I do not see children and I do not miss them. I ask myself, why is this? And then I realize that the men have children's faces." A woman with a raft of friends, Diseuse Oswald got for her debut the sponsorship of such child-faced U. S. men as Malcolm Cowley, John Erskine, Langston Hughes...