Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-03

likes dunes, SeagullS, life, CONVEX.
and loafing. The fact Is that
she has become a rangier girl
than ever.
She has found a new outlet, or
form of expression, since last we
gossiped with her. 1t is one that
might be described as having
limited limitless possibilities,
meaning that while the pros
poets for riches are small. infinite
space has been opened to her
imagination.
Miss Hurt, you see, has be-
come a poet.
Not an amateur. of which
there are so many, but a pro
poet. She has a check from the
Atlantic Monthly, which is no
pushover either for its checks or
the quality it demands of its
writers. Moreover, there is an in
terest in collecting her poems
and publishing them in one of
those thin volumes when she has
written enough.
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Miss Hurts way of becoming
q poet strikes us as suitably
dramatic for one trained for the
theater. 1t will make fine story
one day for Jean Ennis or some
other publishers publicity girl
when it is time to introduce Miss
Hurt to her new audience.
The story? Well, one night
Miss Hurt was waiting in one of
those places where people of the
theater wait for one another.
The girl for whom she waited
was Elaine Stritch, who was la
ter than you'd think.
1t is better perhaps to let the
mind go blank at such times but
this requires having that kind
Of a mind. Miss Hurt does not.
Hers tumbles with thoughts so
metrically shaped that she bor-
rowed a pencil from a passing
employe of the place.
With this, she began to set
down the words: MY fate is to
wait" which ran on and on until
1t was ull-f1edged poem.
mot bitter poem" Miss Hurt
explains. nor an angry one, nor
full Of self-pity. Toward my
poem, my attitude seems to be
one of amiable acceptance.
There are people who would say
this is one of the things wrong
with me. I think, on the con-
trary, that it is a matter of con-
ditioning.
you see, ! have spent so much
time Standing by for stars of hit
musicals, the last one before
this job in Plain and Fancy
Such durable. healthy girls they
are that I have made something
of a second career calling up to
learn they are available for every
performance. This has left me
with lot of idle time which to-
gether with a lifelong habit
of letting words dance through
my mind, has made me avoca-
tlonally a poet"
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Miss Hurt has year ahead
OF her on the road with Damn
Yankee" and she has a feeling
that somewhere along the route,
she may make a detour into
prose.
She has a gifted, compaionable
dog, a poodle name of John, and
she finds herself looking at the
world through his eyes. Not al
ways, understand, but as friends
are apt now and then to view
the world through each others
vision.
This makes her feel that the
time possibly is ripe for another
dog's-eye view of the world. She
could write this, she thinks,
during the vast amount of spare
time an actress has on tour.
This is practical approach to
writing, by making a maximum
use of time, that cannot fail to
strike older pros in the trade as
horrifying. But girls with active
minds are prone to have impact
and impact-prone is a fine thing
to be.
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when actually he comes from the
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