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...Praise of Bromfield...
TWENTY-FOUR HOURS-Louis Bromfield-Stokes...
...Author Bromfield manipulates the interweaving skeins of his narrative with skill, never gets inextricably tangled up. His style is thin and without distinction but he tells a good story. Perhaps because of his poverty of style you never feel more emotionally concerned for any of his people than if you had met them in the flesh at a dinner party so viciously dull as old Hector...
...Author Bromfield's publicity says he has been having a good time in Holly wood lately, whence he arrived in Manhattan fortnight ago, and will sail for France late this month. He is writing a revue for Girl-Glorifier Florenz Ziegfeld. In it will appear the Astaires (Brother Fred, Sister Adele), Marilyn Miller...
Twenty-four Hours appeared serially in Cosmopolitan under the title "Shattered Glass." It is Bromfield's first novel in two years...