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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Austrian Dreams RHAPSODY?Arthur Schnitzler? Simon & Schuster ($1.50). What chances one misses at a ball! At the whole carnival of life! How dreamlike actual existence becomes how real our dreams, if the imagination is allowed to play over them sentimentally! So muses wistful Author Schnitzler. Being a Viennese, either with less than the usual inhibitions or more than the normal interest in sex, Author Schnitzler supplies his characters with chances and dreams of a strictly erotic nature. A doctor's wife, after a ball, confesses to him how very close she came, one summer at the seashore, to having...
Lawrence of Arabia. To understand how this young Welshman has become a popular author,? one must recall (TIME, July 26) how he played a leading role in kindling the Arab revolt against Turkey during the World War, and thus furthered the defense of the Suez Canal and the break-up of the Turkish Empire...
...paring down the Arabian milieu. This was a doubtful course?like abridging the Iliad into a penny dreadful about a wooden horse. Fortunately, Mr. Lawrence has done his own abridging and retained more than a modicum in the original nobler and broader strain. The book is simply what its author pleases the public shall read; and such is the nature of vox populi that hosannas are being sung...
...section on Goodness, the author does not fall to include the familiar distribe on the passion in America for proyphylactic cleanliness. It is not extraordinary that our land of prohibitions both legal and moral, provides tantalizing stimulus for any sensitive observer, be he yokel or diplomat, foreigner or native wit. In this portion of the book alone does the author play the game he has chosen for though fairry adroit satire pinch-hits for the more rugged sincerity which any critical work presupposes he nevertheless concludes his observations in more commendable fashion than he approached his unfamiliar subject...
...theme of "Speak to the Earth," in the hands of a competent writer, might have been worthy of the excellent title, but the author of this novel has bungled it. A discouraged ex-service man tries sheepraising on the Bad Lands of the West, and fails; as he is on the point of suicide, he meets a stray from the East, a shop-girl from Newark, who has been induced by a lady real estate agent to come to a boom town which has failed to boom. What could be more natural than that the hero should take this waif...