#Mary E. Erwin Hobbs

[violettesiren]

Month of my heart! with what a growth of green Thou comest to the garland of the year! What snows have sifted, storms have swept between The June long vanished and the June now here! What wealth of faded foliage beneath Thy feet, forgotten, lies in earth entombed, Sweet flowers on which the dying year did breathe, Half-opened petals, buds that never bloomed!

And from the ashes of the buried year Spring, phoenix-like, the glories of to-day; The vernal wrappings that thy forests wear, The star-strewn emerald of thy carpet gay. For thee alone the opening roses blush, And breathe their fragrance out in many a sigh; The listless air grows heavy with the hush, And wooing zephyrs faint in ecstasy.

I hail thy coming; and a gladder song Goes up from every warbler of the plain; For greener trees and bluer skies belong To thee than any follower in thy train. The rustling of thy leafy robes I heard In the soft music of the April showers, And caught the far-off trill of coming bird, And breathed the fragrance of thine unborn flowers.

And thou art here! I feel it in the lull That steals o'er Nature's bounding pulse to-day; The spring retires and leaves the summer full Of brimming beauty, dauntless of decay. I hear thy presence in the whispering air, The lifting leaf, the honey-bee's low tune, The drowsy hum of insects everywhere ; The world is full of thee, O peerless June!

June by Mary E. Erwin Hobbs

[character-actor-tournament]

Round 1 Results

Jesse White vs Joe Besser

Ed Wynn vs Broderick Crawford

Halliwell Hobbes vs Lionel Barrymore

Charlie Ruggles vs Ernest Thesiger

Frank Morgan vs Frank Jenks - tie

Betty Garrett vs Rags Ragland

Josephine Hull vs Mischa Auer

S.Z. Sakall vs Tom Dugan

Patsy Kelly vs Al St. John

Margaret Hamilton vs Edward Everett Horton

Nella Walker vs Hans Conried

Hattie McDaniel vs Billy Gilbert

Thurston Hall vs Leonid Kinskey

Marjorie White vs Eve Arden

Edward van Sloan vs Jack Oakie - tie

Charles Winninger vs Butterfly McQueen

Alan Mowbray vs Zasu Pitts

Charlotte Greenwood vs Henry Armetta

Marjorie Main vs Pat Buttram

William Demarest vs Bert Lahr

Marie Dressler vs Beulah Bondi

Una O'Connor vs Martha Raye

Dwight Frye vs Charles Coburn

Ned Sparks vs Esther Muir

Thelma Todd vs Elisha Cook Jr.

Christian Rub vs Samuel S. Hinds

Doodles Weaver vs Gail Patrick

Sydney Greenstreet vs Alice Brady

Roland Young vs John Carradine

James Gleason vs Verna Felton

Una Merkel vs Eugene Pallette

Willie Best vs Conrad Veidt

Maude Eburn vs Scatman Crothers

Guy Kibbee vs Walter Brennan - tie

Nat Pendleton vs Clarence Kolb

Jane Darwell vs Raymond Massey

Erich von Stroheim vs Barry Fitzgerald

Eddie "Rochester" Anderson vs Jack Carson

El Brendel vs Reginald Gardiner

Joseph Calleia vs Warren Hymer

Walter Slezak vs Sam Levene

Edna May Oliver vs Richard Lane

C. Aubrey Smith vs Charles Laughton

Gabby Hayes vs Red Buttons

Franklin Pangborn vs Elsa Lanchester

Lionel Atwill vs Martha Mattox

Bill Robinson vs Jessie Ralph

Andy Devine vs Harry Davenport

Richard Carle vs Ernest Truex

Edward Arnold vs Herman Bing

Cliff Edwards vs Sterling Holloway

George Zucco vs Nancy Kulp

Warner Oland vs Jean Adair

Gregory Ratoff vs Grady Sutton

Helen Broderick vs Glenda Farrell

Lillian Yarbo vs Arthur Edmund Carewe

Marjorie Gateson vs Hugh Herbert

Phil Silvers vs Joy Hodges

Ray Bolger vs George E. Stone

George Davis vs Donald Meek

Warner Baxter vs Jerry Colonna - tie

Spring Byington vs Stuart Erwin

Felix Bressart vs Angelo Rossitto

Eric Blore vs Billy Barty

[willdmallow]

"The trees are bursting into green,

The violets into blue

While here and there, in golden sheen,

The dandelion's crest is seen

To peep the spears of grass between

Impearled in morning dew..."

~ Mary E. Erwin Hobbs