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FINAL VERDICT (512 pp.)-Adela Rogers St. Johns-Doubleday...
...could be indifferent to Rogers. His biographer and only daughter, Adela Rogers St. Johns, is fiercely partisan. A onetime Hearst reporter, Adela trailed her father to court from the age of eight. When her mother left home, Adela even accompanied him to his favorite brothel and joined one of the girls in duets on the piano. She protected Rogers, she admits, with the devotion of a tigress, and she is protecting him still. But out of her book's gushing prose Rogers emerges as a remarkably earthy personality, part rapscallion, part Robin Hood...
...servants who rule the town of Chandrapore. An informal tea party introduces us to a circle of characters: the impulsive, Dr. Aziz, a young Indian who desires friendship with the English; the host, Mr. Fielding, a wise English teacher who is immediately attracted to Aziz. And two Englishwomen: Miss Adela Quested is a frigid young thing, engaged to an English magistrate in Chandrapore; and the mother of her fiance is Mrs. Moore. They accept Aziz's invitation picnic with him at the Marabar caves...
Aziz's trial is done well. The principles are perfect, and the scene is an ingeniously constructed one in which Adela Quested realizes her mistake and withdraws the charge against Aziz-leaving the British angry and spiteful and the Indians exuberant and spiteful. Fielding and Aziz hold a strained conversation in which it becomes all too apparent that they never will be friends again until the Empire dissolves, and maybe not even then...
...First Step Up Toward Heaven, Author Adela Rogers St. Johns, a loyal plotholder in Forest Lawn, has provided a gushing biography of Hubert Lewright Eaton, 78, the man who made Forest Lawn what it is today. As Biographer St. Johns, 65, sees her subject, Eaton is not only the Henry Ford of the business, a man who has "revolutionized cemetery development throughout the English-speaking world," but also a major prophet who has helped to change mankind's conception of death...