1935 So Red the Nose or Breath in the Afternoon

Miarriet NMonroe^s

POETS AND THEIR ART Cocktail

1 PART GIN

1 PART CANNED GRAPEFRUIT JUICE

Ice and Serve

ak FTER ail these years Miss Monroe has at last told the truth concerning what ingrédients go into the mak- ing of poets and their art. One-half gin and one- half canned grapefriiit juice. The valiant éditer of Poetry magazine who still climbs mountains, Mayan pyramids, and the foothills of amateur verse that reach her office daily, is now at vvork on her memoirs. But she breaks loose, now and then, to visit the interior of China, beard a récalcitrant guarantor of Poetry in bis den, or dash ofî a cocktail recipe. Two Chicago World's Fairs have come and gone since she sat between a Cardinal in red and an Archbishop in purple and heard her Columbian Ode read to the great crowd gathered at the dedicatory ceremony which launched the Columbian Exposition. Sand- burg, Lindsay, and many other poets have been dis- covered, furious battles have been waged over Free Verse, the Imagists, and the Proletarians. One feels the need of a little Gin and canned grape- fruit juice thinking of this.