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...Berlin. For the last ten years, he has written a national anthem a year. His prodigality has never been approached and he has written at least three songs?Alexander's Ragtime Band, Everybody Step, Pack Up Your Sins? which "no Broadway composer has ever surpassed," says Critic Carl Van Vechten. Berlin, a pioneer in ragtime, was perhaps the first white man who noticeably impressed his talent upon the music of the Negro?the first to score dark jungle jingles, canniballets, revivalisteria for the Anglo-Saxophone...
...purely artificial. Wasn't this inevitable after the muddy baths of realism and naturalism into which we were plunged of late? It is the crisp phrase, the daring image, the subtly concealed idea that demands our atten-tion?and Arlen, with none of the prurient phrases of Van Vechten nor the difficult nuances of Huxley, is like to become the Harold Bell Wright of the hypersophisticated...
...TATTOOED COUNTESS-Carl Van Vechten-Knopf ($2.00). Fleshy and fleshly, but not without wisdom, is the Countess Nattatorrini after 20 years of middle-aged self-indulgence. Sneaking a cigarette in the women's toilet-room of an Iowa-bound Pullman car (anno 1897), she reflects upon her frothy life as the widow of an Italian noble, upon opera, jewels, acquaintances raffinées no end, upon a hulking lover she kept all unfortunately. In Maple Valley, she is welcomed for having been baptized there. Ella Poore was her Main Street name and since she left there have sprung...
...Harmel 1G, of Cleveland, Ohio, and Charles Hartshorne 3G, of Phoenixville, Pa., Rogers Fellowships; Jay W. Jacobs of Carthage, Mo., an Edward R. Bacon Art Scholarship; Howard Kennedy Beale 3G, of Chicago, III., a John Thornton Kirkland Fellowship; and James Phinney Baxter 3d, 2G, of Belmont, and Harold Van Vechten Fay 3G, of Auburn, N. Y., honorary, John Harvard Fellowships...
...expect. He is not disappointed, for he is soon afloat in a sea of fantastic nonsense. Purporting to be a study of British West Indian life and manners, this book leaves one with a dizzying sense of relief that the British West Indies are far away. Carl Van Vechten's whimsical preface proclaims Firbank to be the "only authentic master of the light touch, a man who might be writing with his eyelashes or the tips of his polished finger-nails." Which may all be. Indeed, it is as good an explanation...