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...characters of this novel are articulate; they speak in conventional phrase, but the authoress has exhibited considerable dexterity in uncovering, sometimes gently, often ironically, what they really mean and what emotions within are contending with the sham of their spoken words. It has been Miss Parish's distinct triumph that she has accomplished this largely within the speeches of of the characters themselves, and has not resorted to tedious obiter dicta. Futhermore, she has decorated their halting or dissembling utterances with the impressionistic detail that filled their minds at the time,--the flowers on the table, a wide sweep...
...upon her creatures and describes, always behind the veil of colloquial speech, the effect of their crises upon their emotional natues. And at the and, one must award the palm as heroine to Kate Green by virtue of longest and most substantial portrayal at the hands of the authoress...
...said and done, Haeckla and Dennis were torturing their souls about nothing-and only a great novelist can fling the mantle of Art about a nothingness, then convince the reader that there is a live spook inside the sheet after all. The book is not "promising," and the authoress need not be "watched," but her courage, persistence, and a certain as yet wavering flair for the mot juste make this a far from mediocre "first." First-Novelist Chilton is daughter of onetime U. S. Senator W. E. Chilton (West Virginia...
Miss Rambova mentioned her forthcoming biography of Valentino. "I have been everything but an authoress," she concluded...
...Authoress Colby, wife of onetime U. S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, has publicly stated that her husband is not represented by any character in her book; that he is "far too colossal a person to be encompassed in any single book" (TIME...