Word: boni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...COLOR OF A GREAT CITY-Theodore Dreiser-Boni...
...PREFACE TO LIFE-Edwin Justus Mayer-Boni ($2.50). The candid autobiography of a youth whose physical and spiritual adventures touch upon Harlem and Hollywood, "William Blake and Joseph Conrad, manufacturers, magnates, movie-stars, sweat-shop-workers, policemen, poets, editors, reporters. The growth of a mind, the rise of an intelligence, the development of an interesting and hostile point of view. Well written, fertile of ideas, suggesting one of the many possible answers to the query: " What's wrong with civilization in general and American civilization in particular...
...SACRIFICIAL GOAT ? Ernita Lascelles ? Boni ($2.00). Joan Candler, waitress in her mother's boarding house, had an exhausting time becoming Joan Chard, that promising new star of the sophisticated theatre. Her marriage with David complicated matters?they loved each other with youthful violence, but, no matter what David did, he never seemed to be able to make any money. Eruptive misunderstandings followed the injection of the Shavian Moreby into their lives?his verbal pyrotechnics made Joan dizzy and David heroically annoyed and led to a triangular drama in which poor David was unwittingly cast for the part...
...following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion: HOLIDAY - Waldo Frank - Boni ($2.00). The Negro problem again attacked in fiction, this time from an extremely modern and expressionistic angle. Virginia Hade, haughty Southern beauty, meets John Cloud, young, intelligent Negro, in the woods. They find each other sympathetic. Virginia's family and the other white people of the town misunderstand and set out to lynch Cloud. Virginia might have saved Cloud if she had tried, but she feels too indifferent-nothing seems to matter much any more...
...following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion: WHOSE BODY?−Dorothy L. Sayers−Boni and Liveright ($2.00). A respectable little London architect wakes up one morning to dis- cover the body of an unknown Israelite, nude except for a pair of gold pince-nez, in his bathtub. Whose body? And who is responsible for its presence there? The police, as usual, bungle the matter, but Lord Peter Wimsey, a delightfully indolent young clubman, assisted by the usual Watson and a splendidly upstage butler named Bunter...