Word: beau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beau Geste was a superbly sanguinary book-and it was-this latest* is truly magnificent. The hero is familiar to Beau Geste readers as Major Henri de Beaujolais of the Spahis and the French intelligence service. But you have no idea of this man's training prowess and unblemished character until you read Beau Sabreur...
...crown proved ultimately to be Rocky Kansas, of Buffalo. This Kansas, whose real name was left behind in some alley of his white boyhood, is a scarred workman, 35 years old, who has devoted approximately two-thirds of his life to the trade of fistic war. He is not beau tiful. He is not agile. He is not even particularly strong, but long hours spent in the practice of his profession have given this virtue: he is hard to hurt. He absorbs, without feeling them, blows that would decimate an ordinary citizen. He was not afraid of little Samuel Mandell...
...tales of them must have been true to their period else how should they have been accepted? I dare say there were many prim and proper people living in the 18th century, but every memoir of the time is abundant proof of the licentiousness which was rife in the beau monde. Naturally I did not choose a conventional bread-and-butter miss as my heroine...
...Beau-Strings. The curious title was not affixed by Mr. Munro, at least not in the first place. In London the play was called Storm and Miss Gee, the central part, was played by the Jean Cadell whose abilities are agreeably estimated in the previous review. The part is now played, perhaps some-what misplayed, by Estelle Winwood. Both as a play and in performance the piece seems only a runner-up to At Mrs. Beam...
There are bits of dialogue in both of Mr. Munro's plays that cut so close to home that one cannot but squirm for the human race. For these bits Beau-Strings is worth while. Perhaps with Jean Cadell it would seem amazingly important...