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...APRIL-John Clayton-Kendall & Sharp...
...Devil) showed a renewing demand. Last week's medieval romance. Dew in April, did not assay nearly so high as Power orThe Devil, but it was much solider stuff than last year's highly touted The Fool of Venus (TIME, March 19, 1934). English Author John Clayton, new to the U. S. will not start a critic's gold rush, but Hollywood may well lift up its eyes to his auriferous hills...
...moderns expect the world to end with a bang, at least in their own day, but the year 1212 seemed to many an appropriate date for Doomsday. Rumor set the exact time: the 12th day of the 12th month. Author Clayton begins his tale early in this ominous year, in romantic, ravaged Provence, where the fat lands of favored abbeys are set like islands in the war-swept countryside, and corpses hang high on every road. Holy Church has been chastening her heretical children. In the Abbey of La Soleza, whose fanatical head, Fray Sebastian, is a power...
...name. Her confessor, the dreaded Fray Sebastian, discovers her state, and his holy wrath is fanned by unholy jealousy. He dedicates his life to bringing these two paramours to a dreadful death. To anxious readers it may look for a time as if he would be successful, but Author Clayton steps in manfully in time's nick, turns tables right & left, ends his romantic melodrama with a thumping Hollywooden finale...
Edward B. Hubbard, of Wellesley Farms, has been appointed sub-chairman of the Photographic Board, which is headed by Hans H. Zinsser; William J. Clothier, 2nd, of Valley Forge, Pa., and Philip T. Shahan, of Clayton, Mo., of the Editorial Board, which is headed by James H. Alexandre, III; Clarence D. Martin, Jr., of Olympia, Washington, and Edwin K. Bennett, of Queens Village, N. Y., of the Business Board, under Albert Damon; and John H. McCormick, of Dorchester, of the Art Board, under Edward L. Barnes...