The only poet ever employed to write poetry on a U. S. government payroll, J. Alvin Kugelmass, is one of the collaborators on the lyric and music for “Let’s Go Yankee,” a play to be written entirely in the 900-world vocabulary which was compile for the evening schools of New York and other cities by Miss Elaine Swenson, diector of the Language Research Institute at New York University, the Board of Education’s CWA project.
The play, which will be used in assemblies and for graduation purposes, is to be utilized as a basis for teaching English to foreigners. Mr. Kugelmass has been active in Jewish community affairs. He is the author of numerous poems in Yiddish.
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