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Hero is strapping, serious-minded André Brelet, son of a bankrupt shipbuilder, who as a last resort takes a job as an Abbey guide. His wife Laura is the spoiled daughter of a bankrupt millowner, sullen, snobbish, shallow, a shrewish jade from her blonde head to her painted toes...
...Chamberlain told the House of Commons that Prague had "invited" Britain to send a mediator. Next day Prague officials said they had sent no invitation, added that of course they would "welcome" the Viscount. Leading French Newspundit Pertinax (André Géraud) bitterly deplored the creation of a situation in which both Prague and Paris will have to follow the lead of London. For most commentators agreed that British public opinion will never support the use of arms to aid Czechoslovakia if the recommendations of Lord Runciman are against...
...Cape May); Let's Never Change (by Owen Davis, at Skowhegan); Tomorrow's Sunday (by Philo Higley, at Cohasset); Soubrette (by Jacques Deval, at Ogunquit); Made in Heaven (by Herbert Crocker, at Somerset, Pa.) ; Music at Evening (by Robert Nathan, at White Plains); Dame Nature (by André Birabeau, adapted by Patricia Collinge, at Westport...
Elected to the French Academy at 53 was André Maurois (real name: Emile Herzog), journalist, critic, biographer, historian, lecturer, professional Anglophile and the New York Times's eminent French trained seal. A onetime textile manufacturer, Andre Maurois went into the more elegant business of writing and became a parlor philosopher with the glibness of an Emil Ludwig and the precious outlook of an H. L. Mencken. Last week he followed into the Academy arch-Royalist Charles Maurras, also elected within the month (TIME, June...
Everybody has wondered what would happen if people could read each other's minds. In The Thought-Reading Machine amiable, yea-saying André Maurois gives them the power, finds people's secret thoughts are not so bad. Professor Dumoulin was lecturing at a U. S. university when a colleague handed him what looked like a rolled-up copy of FORTUNE, said it was an invention for recording secret thoughts. Dumoulin secretly tried it on his wife, unearthed a startling hodgepodge of sentimental memories of an early lover, resentment against himself. But when he taxed her about...