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PANDORA LIFTS THE LID?Christopher Morley and Don Marquis ? Doran ($2.00). After a few pages of this breathless tale of plotters, pirates, kidnappers, buried treasure, all reeled out in the hair-raising style of the most approved thrillers, you find yourself wondering: "What are these two scriveners up to now?" They seem to be straining every nerve to convince you that they are done with flippant irrelevancies, that this time they are in deadly earnest, writing a sure-enough mystery story. But after they have you almost convinced, their deft fingers begin poking around into the defenceless ribs...
Fords at cost. (P. 22.) Breathless eggs...
BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT?Rafael Sabatini ? Houghton ($2.00). More sword-clashings by "the modern Dumas," who here tosses off another breathless tale of hapless heroine rescued by peerless knight amid rebellion, intrigue, mad dashings hither and yon, and all else calculated to lift one bodily out of one's chair...
...rotund personality of Balieff and the magnificently foolish or beautiful performance of his company. The fragments which have made up the repertory of Balieff's Chauve-Souris are by now the common property of all America. The drollery of the Parade of the Wooden Soldiers; the exquisite, breathless beauty of the porcelain pantomines; the gorgeous foolishment of "The Sudden Death of a Horse; or the "Greatness of the Russian Soul: by Anton Chekov", the weary, straining rhythm of the Velga boat song,--these and a thousand others are cherished memories for the tens of thousands of Americans who have seen...
...breathless moment when the Delilah seems about to spurn mere clothing...