Evening star., 1936-05-05
CRITICS ASSA|L
PULITZER AWARDS.
Disagree With Selection of
"Idiot's Delight" " "Honey
in the Horn"
BY the Associated Press.

39-year-OlQ OregOnlan. HdrOlQ II.
Davis, announced last night at the
annual dinner of Columbia University,
School of Journalism alumni. brought
critic dissenters to a quick uRiimber-
ing of their typewriters.
The award to Sherwood's play as
fulfilling the criteria of "an original
American play preferably deal
ing with American life" drew a quick
charge from Clayton Hamilton. a
drama critic, that the committee had
"abrogated" one of its own rules in
that the work did not delineate Ameri-
can life.
Critics Already Entrenched.
The decision in this frequently con-
troversial division of the prizes in
letters and journalism found New York
critics already entrenched for the
argument In their own previous selec-
ton of Maxwell Anderson's Winter
set" as the best play of 1885.
Besides that selection by the New
York Drama Critics Circle. the
Dramatists' Guild had chosen boy
Meets Girl" as "the best comedy of
the year."
A veteran New York book reviewer.
Harry Hansen, called Davis novel
tracing the wanderings of an orphan
hero "a brilliant essay, but not COM
pact novel as we know it." He said
he preferred Ellen Glasgow's Vein of
Iron"
Both men aired their views in
radio broadcast shortly after DR..
Nicholas Murray Butler, president of
Columbia University. disclosed winners
in literary and several divisions of
journalistic endeavor.
Two of the three members of the
drama jury were reported to have been
Dr. William Lyon Phelps, professor
emeritus at Yale University. and Mrs.
Padraic Colum, winner of the Guggen-
helm fellowship in literary criticism in
1880. The recommendations of this
and other three-man juries in the let
ters divisions had been submitted to
the Advisory Board of the School of
Journalism and confirmed formally by
Columbia trustees.
Anderson Made Eligible.
DR.. Butler announced the rule bar
ring previous winners of the drama
prize had been rescinded. This made
Anderson eligible for the award. despite
the 1888 prize to him for Both Your
Houses
The gold medal for the most dis
| tinguiShed and meritorious service by
newspaper was awarded to the Cedar
Rapids. Iowa, Gazette for crusade
against "corruptio nand missovern-
ment in the State Of Iowa"
The $1,000 prize for distinguished
reportorial work went to Lauren D.
Lyman Of the New York Times for his
exclusive story on the departure of the
Lindberghs for England.
Davis Gets Award.
The prize for the most distinguished
novel published during 1885 by an
Honey in the Horn." by Harold L.
Davis.
Other awards In letters we're:
Andrew Cunningham Mclaughlin
for his Constitutional History of the
United States"
Barton Perry for his biography,
THE Thought and Character of Will
liam James"
Robert p. Tristram CONN for his
book Of verse, Strange Holiness"
Individual winners of the journal
ism prizes were:
A posthumous award to Will Bar
Der of the Chicago Tribune for dis
tinguished service as a foreign cor
respondent for his reports Of the war
in Ethiopia
A double award for distinguished
editorial writing to Felix Morley.
editor Of the Washington Post, and
to George B. Parker. editor in chief
of the Scripps Howard newspapers.
No award was made to a cartoonist
this year.
Honorable Mention.
Honorable mentions were awarded
as follows:
To q newspaper: To the st. Paul
tMinn) Daily News for its campaign
against corruption and misgovernment
in st. Paul.
Washington or foreign correspond
ent: Webb Miller of the United Press
Association for his reports of the Italo
Ethiopian war; Ashmun Brown of the
Providence (R. H. Evening Bulletin
for his correspondence from Washing
ton; Jay G. Hayden of the Detroit.
Mich, News. for his series of political
articles written on tour of the coun-
try; James A. Mills Of the Associated
Press, for his story in regard to leasing
of Ethiopian Oil concessions to the
Standard Oil Co.
Three scholarships, $500, were
awarded to the following Columbia
Journalism School graduates for travel
in Europe: Sevellon Brown, Provi-
dence, r. l.; Helen Beal, Delaware,
Ohio, and Louis H. Birnbaum, Clevs-
land. Ohio.
Alternates chosen were: John A.
McWethy, Aurora, ILL.,; Philip D. Tay-
lor. Bloomington, Ind, and Writ Nc
Clintic Mitchell, Fayette, Mo.
One scholarship. $500, for music
student deemed the most deserving
and talented in America, was awarded
to Samuel Barber. New York City, for
study in Europe.
One scholarship, $500, for an art
student certified as the most promis-
ing and deserving by the National
Academy of Design, was awarded to
Sigmund Kozlow, Maspeth, N. Y.
Books Mentioned.
Books prominently mentioned for
awards included the following:
Novels-"vein of Iron," by Ellen |
Glasgow: "Of Time and the River"
by Thomas Wolfe; Time Out of
Mind" by Rachel Field, and "silas |
Crockett" by Mary Ellen Chase