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...Alger are examples. While his boys swarmed up the ladders of success, her girls skid softly down self-greased ways to hell. His boys could not tell sex from a horsecar, her girls know skyscrapers are phallic. Though writing in this general drift (Bad Girl, Loose Ladies, Kept Woman], Authoress Delmar manages to steer her novels into waters of some depth. She is serious, sincere, sympathetic. At her best she grants a novelist's final absolution to the world-she writes of her characters as they would write of themselves. In her latest novel Authoress Delmar writes of three...
...fortunes of a middle-class Jewish family, was created for her own amusement by one Mrs. Gertrude Edelstein Berg of Manhattan. At the instance of friends she offered it to NBC, which took it as a sustaining feature in 1929. The part of Mother Goldberg was taken by Authoress Berg herself, who said it represented her grandmother. Last July Pepsodent adopted The Goldbergs as a secondary battery to supplement their Amos 'n Andy...
...PENNINGTON-Francis Brett Young-Harper ($2.50). Though Author Young might be horrified at the comparison, Mr. and Mrs. Pennington may remind you of Authoress Vina Delmar's best-selling Bad Girl. Like Bad Girl, it is a circumstantial story of middle-class domesticity, its falls and rises. But Author Young, Bachelor of Medicine, has not been so obstetrical as Authoress Delmar, mother. His scene too is larger, peopled by more characters. Whereas Bad Girl was a tempest in a flat, Mr. and Mrs. Pennington is heading straight for tragedy when Author Young's magic wand stops it, just...
...recorded a more mildly poignant life pattern than that of Charles Lamb, who, himself not precisely a tower of strength, had yet to bear the burden of his own peccadillos with the tragic fact of his adored sister. While unfolding the subdued drama of this luckless pair the authoress availed herself of the abundant material for the creation of a literary atmosphere, and for the most part achieved a satisfying degree of success, leaving only to be desired a more penetrating (although not lengthier) portrayal of S. T. Coleridge, or at least an intimation of the quality of this poet...
...succession of satirical sketches Authoress Brokaw parades a long line of gilded caricatures: Social Arbitress Mrs. Townley, her chief rival Mrs. Topping, climbing Mrs. Crumb, many another socialite host & parasite. All of them dislike one another, exert themselves to the utmost to do one another down. Though Stuffed Shirts is not a continued story, the same stuffed shirts reappear from time to time, and if you are curious about their relationship a genealogical table at the end will make all clear. If you are a constant reader of the society page you may have some fun adventuring among Authoress Brokaw...