NYU Washington Square College - Album Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Ro1s1:RT cH.xx1111aRs H01.L1s R, 11001111 R1cgH,xRn c1oLiRAN'1' lff'sz'z1rclz PIi!Ifl'.8'.8'!Il' of Biology Inxtrurtor in Al!lf,1l'I7IIl1il'S Professor of Mathematics, Chairman of dfpaf A.B,, Robert, Cmistantinople, IQOO1 AAI., A.B., Middlehllry, 19202 AAI., Nliddlebilry. men! Queens, Cflllfliill, 19025 Ph.D., Munich, 1908. 1922 Ph.D,, Cfllllllgffll- 'QW EDXYARD T. KIROXYDER, JR. CLARENCE C. DIT'1'Ml:iR NIILURICD DAVIS DOYLI-L qlssisfarzt IVISITIIFIUI' in El'0IlUIIlfl'.Y Prgjggggr gf Sggiglggyy Chairman of dppaytmgng .1.v.xisl1n1t in English A.B., Piltslmingli, 19155 AAI., New York Ph.B., Hamline, 19101 A.M., NVisc011si11, 19183 AB., Simmons, 19225 A,M., Colorado, 1 Uiiiversity, 193.1 Ph.D., xViSCOIlSill, 192.1 HOWARD H. DIINBAR CHARLES A.DWY1iR XVII.LI,'XNI F. EHRET Inslructor in lfnglish .-lssislrlrzt Prnfrfssm' of Speeflz ,f.X.SiSfIlIIf Professor of Clwnzistry AAI., Amherst, 19255 AAI., Columbia, 1926 All., St. P6lCl'vS, 1918g A.M., New York Ulli- Scxll., C.C.N.Y., 19233 A.M., C.C.N.Y., 19: versity, 1926 l'h.D., Columbia, 1927

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EIERICZ ERNST NHNNA KI. FALK F,-XY li-XRNVNI I wfrssm of Pl'E'I1!'lI IIl.5'l'VIlf'fUI' in History fi.Y.S'fSfI1lIf Ihrafessrn' of lllailizfnzrllirs .-XIB.. Arhenee Royal Delnelguque, 19o6: AAI.. B.S.. New York lf11iversil1'. 19263 AAI.. New SLB., Iowa Stale College, 19093 AAI., Cornell YN1sco11s111. 1911 York l'11iversily, 19273 Ph.D., New York Uni- 19153 Ph.D., Cornell, 1929 versity. 1933 ANTON FRIEDRICH CIEDRIC GALE DAVID CANS .lssoriatff l'rofessor of Econonzics, I,fl'f'l'f0l' of slssisfnnt in English III.Sf7'IlffOT in Matlzrfzrmtics the Iliwisiml of Unijird Sturlirs A.B., New York University, 193113 AAT., New BS., New York Uiiiversity, 19283 ,-LB.. Beloil College, 1917 York University, 1931 AAI.. Har1'1ml, 19311 NIOND L. GARMAN ROBERT GAUNT ROBERT J. GESSNER Vnslrurtor in Chenzislry Assistant Professor of Biology Iizstrurlor in English Franklin and Marshall, 19293 XLS.. New .-LB., Tulsa, 19292 AAI., Princeton, 19303 Ph.D., A.B., Michigan, 19293 AAI., Columbia, 1930 York University, 19313 Ph.D., New York Uni- Princeton, 1932 rersily, 1932

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whose plots are sensational like The Thin Mun and Great Guy. But for consistent real- istic expression I believe Dorlszuorth was the best American film of the year, and it is very likely that, of all the forms of literature, the moving picture is the one in which we shall see the most hopeful immediate development. The novel has a contrary change. The phenomenal popularity of Gone With the Wind shows that the popular taste has de- generated even from the low level established by Anthony Adverse. Unless the book adver- tisers are to blame, the public demand is now for the long chronicle novel without relation to present modes of living, middle class dreams of well-being are now pushed back into past eras. The better type of novel, such as con- tinues to flourish fwitness Celine's journey lo ll1e End ofNigl1I and Gilloux' Bifler Vir- roryj 3 the novel of decadence in which all the torturous bafllements of the intellectual re- ceive expression has almost entirely lost out in this country. The chief representative of it is Faulkner's Afzsnlonz, Absalom, but this novel is verbose and blurred in comparison with his earlier and better work. At the same time the left novel has at length begun to justify itself in response, in part perhaps, to'criticism, but certainly to a much greater degree because a new genera- tion of novelists is better assimilating the new attitude of the working class. The stilted style, the plot constructed from a formula, the absorption primarily in radical dogma, that characterized the earlier left fiction, have now begun to disappear. The priority in this achievement, though it was only partially suc- cessful, was Steinbeck's In Dubiotts Bnllfe, which reacted almost too extremely front the flabby and the pedantic. It is in Engstrand's Izzrfnrlers that the new tendency is best rep- resented. This remarkable lirst novel brings into our left Hction qualities of passion and vitality that before we have had to go to Gi- ono, Malraux, and French left fiction gen- erally, to secure. But it would be premature, from a few examples, to predict a new move- ment in proletarian fiction. The drama has lagged the worst of all- as far as the left stage is concerned. NVith the single doubtful exception of Lawson's ilfarcll- ing Song, which suffers front a clumsy ending, the left theatre has been in a state of collapse. The faults of the earlier left novel continue in it, and audiences are no longer responsive. Only in the realm of the play about war, in Bury llte Dead, a short curtain raiser, is there a survival of the creative power we witnessed a few years ago in Sfeveflore and Lawsonls own Pror'e.rsionnf. But with the retreat of the Depression, the theatre, generally speaking, has revived, and is repeating in dramatic form the points of view of the novel. The play of bafllement so admired by Mr. Krutch, con- tinues to find illustration in the dramas of Maxwell Anderson, who conceals his distress in the elevated atmosphere of poetry or of a more heroic age. And we always have with us Noel Coward and the musical play to take our attention away from any serious contact with life through those banalities that in our unhappy period pass for wit. Certainly the most hopeful aspect of the American theatre this last season has been the revival of Shake- speare in the Howard and Gielgud Hrnnlefs,,' and Evans' Rirlmrrl II. But the real source of creative power in the American theatre con- tinues to be neither the left nor the commer- cial theatre, but the YVPA, whether it be in the revival of Dr. Fnztslus or the rich spon- taneous contemporary chronicle of Power and other plays in the living newspaper stories. EDXVIN BERRY BURGUNI 17