Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SHIFTING from dramatic satire, George Kelly, the author of "The Torch Bearers and "The Show off" has entered the field of comedy with gusto in his latest play. "Craig's Wife...
...mystery. There is mystery there. If one were a Christopher North, one would add--"the mystery of why one reads the things at all"; as long as one is not, the mere intrigue which always associates itself with new print and new paper and the fact that the author is a delightful actress and a friend of a friend of one's mother. "Home Talent" will sell fairly well and make an excellent moving picture...
...Craig, is the familiar type of woman who worships meticulously at the shrine of her Lares and Penotes. These household gods are her all, and it follows that she spends at least a third of her rather selfish life in preserving the domestic perfection of every absurd detail. The author, by taking a small, self-centered soul and depicting its fussy quirks with well-seasoned finesse, has converted her into an entertaining dramatic study...
...stage, after all, is small; the characters too often, unreal. Alurid himself appears a bit inflated by his author's fervor in creating him. His son, Gilson, in his love for the little Japanese girl, is not always completely convincing. The story itself often lacks clarity, becomes entangled in the mazes of an evident flair for originality. Yet it is interesting, at times, revealing. And any novel which includes a character like the good Captain Horn who had one very bad night must eventually satisfy, even as does this one from the many refreshing descriptions of the many refreshing descriptions...
Leaving aside the defects of Mr. Merritt's power as a conjurer, the reader who is in search of an antidote to the present school of literary photography will doubtless enjoy "The Ship of Ish, tar." It is an adventurous glimpse at at a forgotten civilization which the author has convincingly re-created. There are to be sure, dull parts in the story, and at times the narrator loses himself and his reader in a labyrinth of suggestive but unintelligible passages. A glance at the jacket, however, is reassuring. There is no mention of subtle satire or of involved philosophical...