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Major Ian Hay Beith, British playwright-novelist: "Arriving in the U.S. on my way to the West Indies, I said: 'Men of today lack the old-fashioned reverence for women that was the most sacred thing in life. . . Men of New York and London should refuse to give more than one cocktail to any woman on any occasion. They should unite to restore woman to her old pedestal. . . They should not take women to night clubs and give them drinks...
...Major Ian Hay Beith is known to the literary world, will sail for this country some time in December. The next three weeks he will devote largely to lecturing and he undertakes to tell "the truth about authors." As he is a high official of the British Author's Society, he should be well qualified to tell the truth about them. Major Beith's next book is scheduled for publication in the spring...
Major Ian Hay Beith ("Ian Hay"): "In a debate with Sinclair Lewis in London on Main Street and High Street, I declared that the English public likes a hero with aristocratic connections in these ultra-democratic days, not necessarily, a duke. But the American public like the self-made hero, who comes from the farm and devotes his life to creating panics on Wall Street...
...permitted to take rank beside "The Mirrors of Downing Street", to which position so many reviewers seem willing to raise it. Occasionally, one feels the lack of literary background on the part of the reviewer, especially in the case of such a criticism as that of Major Beith's "Willing Horse". The books selected for review are varied in character and likely to merit serious consideration. That they receive it from an undergraduate publication, is in itself no small achievement. The most pretentious work in this issue is Mr. Ludlam's "King of Dougal Court". Mr. Ludlam's choice...
...armies since the armistice and the liberal granting of furloughs and leaves to those not yet discharged from service, the organization has grown into a recognized and thoroughly representative body. The objects of the Congress may be summed up in that characteristic American phrase of which Capt. Ian Hay Beith could not rob us even by adoption, namely, "Getting Together...