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...action are sometimes funny. As a serious literary trick, Plato used the same device; so did Walter Savage Landor, British Novelist Keith Winter's latest book is based on this "consequential"' scheme. Suppose that D. H. Lawrence, surrounded by sycophants, went to Mallorca to die. Suppose Noel Coward, vacationing, became his neighbor. What would happen? On this lively supposition Author Winter has written a tale that is blurbed as another South Wind but is more like Somerset Maugham's spiteful Cakes...
Sweet Aloes (by Joyce Carey; Lee Ephraim, producer) is a good commercial mixture of pseudo-science and sob-stuff calculated to provide a lush, sentimental background suitable to the fragile beauty of British Actress Evelyn Laye, unseen on Broadway since her impersonation of another lady of sorrows in Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet. However, the play scarcely deserves the full ire of Walter Winchell, the New York Mirror's columnist-critic, who commented: "Sweet Aloesy...
...were permissible in the Senate," Senator Glass growled out of the corner of his mouth, "to say that any man who would asperse the integrity and veracity of Woodrow Wilson is a coward, if it were permissible to say that his charge is not only malicious but positively mendacious, that I would be glad to say. ... I resent it ... as an infamous libel...
...Macaulay, Lord Chesterfield, Queen Victoria, Cromwell et
al. AMERICAN NEUTRALITY, 1914-1917- Charles Seymour-F
...where we find Randolph Scott in the role of the forerunner to the modern conscientious objector. He "likes to see things grow," and hates destruction. His mature and civilized ideology run counter to the inflamed and destructive passions of the times. Consequently he is socially ostracized, is called a coward by his beloved cousin (Margaret Sullavan), and is torn by divided loyalties. Before the war is over, he capitulates and joins the Southern side, and then comes the complete transformation in to a soldier, whose one dominating instinct is to kill...