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...MODERN TRAGEDY-Phyllis Bentley-Macmillan...
England's swiftest, swankest sports car used to be the Bentley, defunct since 1931. This year Rolls-Royce Ltd. have revived the Bentley as a name with even greater prestige among sportsmen than their own. Last week the King-Emperor's youngest son, Prince George, opened London's 27th annual Motor Show, lingered longest at the Bentley booth. Soon Rolls-Royce announced that their whole 1934 output of Bentleys had been sold "largely to private owners." despite the fact that the cheapest Bentley is priced...
CARR - Phyllis Bentley - Macmillan...
...write the life of a plain man with all the pomp & circumstance of a full-dress biography might seem a satirical idea; in unkinder hands than Phyllis Bentley's such a book might be a reductio ad absurdum of both subject and method. But Authoress Bentley's intentions and accomplishment are honorably serious. Though she sets the stage with such reverent care that the reader expects a notable if not tycoonish hero, the curtain has not been up long before alert spectators realize that the spectacle will be unspectacular. Authoress Bentley succeeds, however, in transfiguring her average...
Freshman players will be A. C. Helmholz, R. W. Gilder G. G. Glidden, J. A. Roberts, G. S. Franklin, A. C. Reggie, L. S. Shaw, G. F. Robertson, R. L. Bentley, J. F. Donovan, and J. R. Short. The Brown Freshmen will be Dyer, Sharp, Mittleman, Rabinovitz, Simonds, and Margolies...