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...MASTER OF THE HOUSE-Radclyffe Hall-Cape &; Ballon ($2.50). By means of a simple but elaborated style Authoress Hall diffuses throughout her book a balmy neo-Biblical atmosphere, like that of George Moore's The Brook Kerith. Like that book, The Master of the House treats of the Christ story; but Authoress Hall, longtime a Council member of the Society for Psychical Research, has ideas about Christ that would wilt Materialist Moore. She leaves the historic Christ alone, merely shows, how, in one of his characters, a boy chances to reincarnate the psychic Christ. In the little Provengal town...
...Authoress Vicki (Grand Hotel) Baum entered the U. S. under the immigrant quota fortnight ago, plans to become a naturalized U. S. citizen, thus solving her German money problems...
...Author. Since Scarlet Sister Mary received the 1928 Pulitzer Prize, Authoress Julia Mood Peterkin has lived much the same local life as before with her cotton- planting husband on Lang Syne Plantation, Fort Motte, S. C. Once a winter she goes to New York, "to pleasure herself," not to be lionessed. At home the local colored folk know that "Miss Julia" has put them in books, do not much care. Negro intelligentsiacs agree with the whites ? that Authoress Peterkin writes accurately, vividly of the Gullah Negroes. Equally vivid, Bright Skin gives a broader picture of Gullah life than Scarlet...
Some people, thanks largely to their fathers and mothers, are still of some good in the world. Authoress Hull, in a remarkably feminine but unsentimental novel, shows the home-fire therapy at work, shows to what beneficent ends its Lares & Penates can keep house. When Amy Norton begins to feel that her marriage with Geoffrey is an experience outworn, that they are both becoming drugs on each other's market, she leaves New York, runs back home to Midwestern Flemington. Here, headed by old Grandmother Westover, called by everybody Madam, the Westover clan pursues its troubles mixed with...
...Boston branch of the Committee has secured Polly Boyden, Authoress, Harold Hickerson, playwright, and Jim Garland, Kentucky miner, to address Liberal Club members in the afternoon before pleading to a large gathering in the Old South Meeting House Wednesday night...