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...writers have been so infallible as Rosamond Lehmann. Dusty Answer (1927) might have been a lucky strike; A Note in Music showed it was not. In Invitation to the Waltz Authoress Lehmann, with sure and delicate touch, tells a tale of vernal English virginity. Olivia and Kate were sisters, both pretty, but different. Kate was neat, chic, determined; Olivia dowdy and diffuse. Both were beside themselves with breathless ambition at the prospect of Lady Spencer's dance-Olivia's first. Their hard-put-to-it mother had relaxed so far as to let them invite a young Oxonian...
...Authoress Lehmann, wise economist of effects, never gives you too much of anything, of some of her characters lets you have tantalizing glimpses that are not half enough. What she lets you see of young brother James, a glowering but attractive rebel, would make any reader call for more. In the silence of his crib James was given to versifying his wrongs. One scorcher...
...books may be pleased to know that Rosamond Lehmann has U. S. blood, comes from the same family as Playwright Owen Davis. Her father, the late Rudolph Chambers Lehmann, was on Punch's editorial staff, was better known as one of England's mightiest oars. Aged 31, Authoress Lehmann is married to Arlist Wogan Phillips, nephew of towering Lord Kylsant who spent the past year in jail for malfeasance in connection with the affairs of the Royal Mail Line (TIME, Aug. 12, 1931 et seq.). Like Infant James she lisped in numbers, still prefers verse to prose...
...Rover believes that last week was an ideal week for the person with newsy spirit," continued Ingham, who is the brother of Katharine Brush, the authoress. "On Monday he went to the "Green Pastures' School for the young Negroes who are potential pasturers. The Rover gained entrance on the pretense that he was from the board of education. Many are the roles played by the Rover as he scoots over his course for news. Tuesday, he wrote of his friend Hannibal. Wednesday, a lady who was sent home from London in the war days by Herbert Hoover to stop...
Unlike most undergraduate poets, Authoress Millay in this trial flight kept her immortal longings strictly under control. Her airily unpretentious blank verse, never seeking to vie with Marlowe or Milton, avoids comparisons, succeeds perfectly in cloaking a little masterpiece...