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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1930
Page
10
A 1930 Hoyle后 article details four hands from a New York card club where the declarer misplayed to avoid game. The partner insists the play could have made game, with analysis promised in the next piece. The narrative also touches on hair rinse tips and a jail anecdote about Thomas who bought a cat to cope with jail housing.
University of North Carolina tops 22 Southern colleges with 94 graduates named in Who's Who in America survey. Harvard Yale Princeton lead overall. UNC ranks 37th among 140 institutions. Virginia is Southeastern leader with 84 names. Georgia 82. Vanderbilt 66. Wake Forest 56. Other Southeastern schools listed include Hampden-Sydney Randolph-Macon Richmond South Carolina Sewanee and Tulane among others.
Conrad Aiken’s new poetry collection from Scribner’s, his first since 1925, blends intellectual substance with musical line. It opens with John Deth a long poem on beauty, death and disillusionment, followed by sonnets and shorter pieces, and ends with Medusa a study in introversion.
A Harper Brothers volume examines the agrarian way of life as an alternative to industrialism. Twelve Southern writers including Vanderbilt and Tulane professors and poets like John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren contribute essays on history, economics, religion, art, and individualism.
Washington reports the Bureau of Mines says only about one and a quarter pounds of radium with an estimated value near 50 million dollars have been produced for world use since its discovery late in the 19th century.
G F Young's The Medici appears in a single Modern Library volume the bulky two volume original is condensed but the text remains complete with clear neat type Horace Liveright prepares several forthcoming titles including Conqueror of Space and Mademoiselle Against the Word while Margaret Ayer Barnes returns to Chicago after a book fair and hectic New York activities to work on a second novel
A fragmented listing names Archibald MacLeish W Leonard and others including Robinson Jeffers Harriet Monroe and Ezra Pound. It references Magazine of Verse figures and a cluster of poets such as Wallace Stevens Marianne Moore Edna St Vincent Millay Carl Sandburg and Robert Frost among mentioned editors and publishing outlets.
The sentence notes that the average speed of passenger trains in the United States is about 185 miles per hour.
A critical column on Contradance by Wilson Whitman from Bobbs Merrill finds the New Orleans plot tedious. It notes John McDonough, a Puritan youth, travels from Baltimore to New Orleans, clashes with society, loves a Creole woman, and ends as a founder of schools after a fortune is left in his will.
A terse poem in which the speaker speaks of taking what cannot be taken and waking what cannot be awakened. He admits walking where only winds go and kissing what fades, acknowledging a strange knowledge beyond ordinary understanding as he calls himself clay.
The critic finds the New Orleans setting dull and the hero's qualities unconvincing. Miss Whitman is faulted for a weak portrayal, though the narrative momentum occasionally provides a spark with bursts of action.
Answers point to key names in modern poetry: three philosophical poets include T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and W. H. Auden. The leading poetry journal is The Nation with editor Robert Lowell. The father of French symbolism is Jean Moreas. Ezra Pound advanced typography as literary power. T. S. Eliot wrote The Waste Land. Peter Quince at the Clavier was by Wallace Stevens. A recent editor of the Dial was Marianne Moore. Tastrae was written by Henry James. Ten outstanding American ports include New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans, Mobile, San Francisco, Seattle.
The week’s new arrivals include The Gates of the Compass by Robert Hillyer from Viking and A Yacht in Mediterranean Seas by Isabel Anderson from Marshall Jones. Also listed are New York by Paul Morand, Ambition by Bernard Guttmann, Bach The Master by Rutland Houghton, Old Pastures by Padraic Colum, A Saturday Life by Radclyffe Hall, Northclyffe by Hamilton Fyfe, and Andree by George Palmer Putnam.
A man found dead in Baltimore was identified by Charles Howser as an uncle. Nephews and nieces confirmed the kinship and the funeral proceeded. Afterward the funeral party spotted the uncle alive and well at a street intersection, ending in a happy reunion.
The Literary Chronicle reviews John Masefield’s new work Dahlias and Strawberries and discusses its themes. Norman Matson’s analysis and comments by Havelock Fillis appear in coverage of the literary scene in India and Britain.
C F Andrews discusses Indian resentment toward Britain and urges Britain to serve India as advisor rather than ruler. John Masefield’s Wanderer of Liverpool profiled with ship history and poetry. Five Georges Russell paintings shown at Barbbigan exhibit. Ta- gore to meet New Yorkers before returning home. Padraic Colum critiques lack of modern poets. Gerald Mathews and G Stoney novel Po Buckra centers on race conflict. Havelock Elis journal Impressions and Comments reissued as Fountain of Life. Sabatini rehearses The Truant in New York before Charleston production.
A Brook review notes Dorothy Canfield’s The Deepening Stream lacks the vitality of The Brimming Cup but remains readable. Matey Gilbert, daughter of a college professor, marries Adrian Fort and, with war service in France, returns to a quiet, serviceful life that validates their choices.
A vintage guidance on hair treatment suggests hot oil shampoos before bed with olive oil and cotton pads, then a morning wash with heated castile soap for softness. An egg shampoo is offered as an optional boost, recommending warm water and thorough rinsing to avoid cooking the egg.
Thomas McBridge complains about terrible accommodations in the county jail in Elyria Ohio. He details poor cells and overcrowding, urging reform and better care for inmates.
The Washington County Free Library in Hagerstown Maryland is noted as the United States' first county library. It marks an early model of public library service funded by county government and serving local residents with access to books and reading materials.
Greensboro reserves prepare to entertain about 2900 visiting officers for the annual meeting of the United States Reserve Officers Association North Carolina department on November 29. Prominent army officers will address national defense topics with a general discussion to follow. Officers listed include President Col J W Harveson Raleigh Vice President Lieut Col Stanley Howland Asheville Lieut Col Thomas W Ruth Charlotte Capt Wiley Pickens Lincolnton Lieut H W Meredith Greensboro and Secretary Capt F H Claridge Raleigh.
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