Books: Sleeping Beauty

THE PRINCESS MARRIES THE PAGE—Edna St. Vincent Millay—Harper ($2).

In 1917 Undergraduate Edna St. Vincent Millay, precocious senior at Vassar College, finished a one-act play in verse. The Princess Marries the Page. It was her first play. While the rest of the U. S. was buckling into the machine that was to send A. E. F. divisions catapulting into France, seven Vassar girls were whispering and giggling over their parts. On the much-rehearsed night Authoress Millay played the Princess, took many a curtain call. Next year, as a real grown-up actress, she played the...

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