Word: brentanos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...THEATRE IN LIFE?Nicolas Evreinov?Brentano ($3.50). M. Evreinov's Russian ingenuity has excelled in such varied activities as circus performing, archaeology, law, novels, history and flute-playing, but his chief passion and reputation are in the theatre. This book, a more or less formal attempt to enunciate a philosophy, elaborates Shakespeare's dictum about all the world being a stage. Poet Robert Burns would have been interested, for M. Evreinov touches also on the problem of seeing oneself as seen by others. "The Theatre of Oneself," says M. Evreinov, is conducted by every human being in all those acts...
...STRONGER GOD-Eric Waring -Brentano's ($2). Heroines called "gentlemen" have been the vogue. They combine fascination and sportsmanship, but not ladylike morals and manners. Now comes Freya Von Herrenstein trying bravely to be both a gentleman and a lady. For ten years she passes as her dead twin brother, Kurt-at home, at military school, in the Uhlans, in gay 19th Century Vienna. Love, of course, is the deity referred to by the title. The report, "Missing in action," is her prothalamium. . . . Author Waring is not just clever. He writes with scrupulous attention to his main obligations-sharp...
...Budapest, Hungary, will be sent the Princeton man, Joshua Butler Wright, to succeed Theodore Brentano as U. S. Minister. Ignorant Hungarian newspapers expressed proud surprise that the U. S. Secretary of State had been made Minister to their country. Blithely unconscious of Mr. Kellogg's Secretaryship, they attached all manner of significance to the appointment of Mr. Wright, who happens to be merely Mr. Kellogg's suave and able assistant. Mr. Wright, a onetime rancher from Wyoming, has been in the diplomatic service and the Department of State since...
...HAVE A FINE FUNERAL- Pierre La Maziere- Brentano's ($2). What if a clerk, after drudging in J. P. Rockerbilt & Co. for 20 years, seized his chance to embezzle $10,000 and soon ran it into six figures by playing the stock market as he saw his superiors secretly playing it? What if he then confessed his peculation to the bank president, tendering his check for the stolen sum, plus interest, and showing by his bank book that he was an important depositor? Suppose the banker put away the check as a weapon, and forbore arresting the clerk because...
...Caesar visits Carthage. CHILDREN OF THE MORNING - W. L. George- Putnam ($2). What became of 59 children stranded on a desert island. EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE - Felix Riesenberg - Har court, Brace ($2.50). Epical treatment of Manhattan, isle of psychlones. I'LL HAVE A FINE FUNERAL - Pierre La Maziere - Brentano ($2). Upholster's apprentice into French Senator, into cynic. JILL - E. M. Delafield - Harper ($2). Life in looser London. CUSTODY CHILDREN - Everett Young - Holt ($2.50). Battledore and shuttlecock with the daughter of divorcees. POWER - Lion Feuchtwanger - Viking Press ($2.50). The rise and fall of Jud Siisz, great Jew. SORREL...