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...Conquering Horde (Paramount). This picture includes all the sequences acceptable to fanciers of western pictures. Carpetbaggers follow herds across the border and are harassed by a cowboy (Richard Arlen) whose ulterior motive is love for a beautiful but pure girl (Fay Wray...
...DISLIKE WTOMEN?Michael Arlen ?Doubleday, Doran...
Some mean person once called Michael Arlen's style not brilliant, but brilliantine. There is more justice in this stab when it is aimed at his earlier novels than at his latest, best book. Still brilliantined in spots, Men Dislike Women may surprise Arlenites by its compactness, comparative hardness, freedom from the brittle artificiality, the paste tears, the pasty sentiment that have made even Arlen enthusias's call Michael Arlen ephemeral...
...novelists these days attempt epigrammatic narrative, and fewer of their attempts are memorable. Michael Arlen's attempts are at least persistent: "After all, the first lesson a young man has to learn is that he must forgive his father, for he knew not what he did." Sheila had "one of those lovely fair inane faces. . . . She was so utterly devoid of expression that it was delightful merely to sit and look at her and dream of better things." "One of the most significant factors in American life, usually overlooked by foreign observers, is that Americans really do like Americans. This...
Such unstinted praise would be welcome if it had not been learned long ago to accept Mr. Arlen's statements with many grains of salt. Nor does the fact that he has come to this country to write conduce to a whole-hearted reliance on the sincerity of the author. There are more ways than one of undermining sales-resistance. But Americans, like all true bibliophiles, should read between the lines. There would probably be seen there a crudely overt attempt by the trimmer of the Green Hat to insure a market for his latest millinery creations among Romantic Ladies...