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NIGHT IN THE HOTEL-Eliot Crawshay-Williams-Liveright ($2).* The Hotel des Anges et d'Albion, its arresting title notwithstanding, was a second-rate hotel overlooking a second-rate Riviera town. Its 22 guests were a fair cross-section of upper-middle-class England (except for three who were French). When you first see them gathered in the dining room for their skimpy déjeuner they look a pretty average, not to say mediocre lot; but when Author Crawshay-Williams lets you follow them into their separate sanctums, shows them quarreling, soliloquizing, making love, they cease...
Though you might suspect Author Crawshay-Williams' motive in inviting you to peek through the keyholes of all these bedrooms, the sights he shows you are less salacious than salutary; they are by turns humorous, pathetic, depressing, always recognizably human scenes...
...Author. Lieut. Colonel Eliot Crawshay-Williams (retired). Etoned, Oxfordized, twice divorced, served his country as an army officer in India, served one-time Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George as Parliamentary Private Secretary; in the War served his country again in Egypt, Palestine. Many a book of plays, essays, stories bears his name. Night in the Hotel is his first U. S. importation...
Died. Rt. Rev. Arthur Crawshay Alliston Hall, 82, English-born Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Vermont; at Burlington, Vt.; of heart disease...
Affrighting example of the iniquitous advantages enjoyed over females by males in England: One Crawshay Rawson of Chester, England, was deserted by his wife, and, although she is still alive, filed notice of her death with the local registrar, set up a tombstone...
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