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RETROSPECT-Aldous Huxley-Double-day, Doran ($2.50). Fourteen hundred pages of Author Huxley's reprinted prose & verse, including Brave New World, Crome Yellow, Leda...
Billie Dove is a svelte literary agent. She becomes attracted to a dull young man named Dudley Crome (Charles Starrett) because she likes his refreshing ingenuousness, his simple tastes. These simple tastes are what complicate their married life. Crome wants her to stay at home and have a family. She wants to work. Presently they divorce. Crome marries a girl who sees things his way. She has already had a baby when the picture ends but despite this bond, usually infrangible in the cinema, Crome has returned to his first wife, is preparing to remarry her. Cinemactress Dove wears becoming...
Other important paintings are an early Turner, "Seapiece," lent by the Malden Public Library; the "Grand Landscape" of Gainsborough; John Crome's "The Mill," the only representative of this artist on display: a small canvas by John Sell Cotman, "Chateau in Normandy": and some water colors by John Ruskin, Thomas Girtin and William Blake. It is interesting to note that group of one Turner and two Raeburns are hung in the identical place in which they were when the museum opened...
...GOAT AND COMPASSES? Martin Armstrong?Harper ($2.00) You gaze down at people from the church steeple of Crome one sea-windy day: thin Susan Furly marching from door to door with the parish magazine; buxom Bella Jorden, preening her black silk on the porch of the Goat and Compasses; Rose Jorden talking furtively with some man through a hedge; old Mrs. Dunk, the charwoman, pottering about the graveyard; plump-breasted Sally Dunk, flirting boldly in the lane. Of an evening you hear the local males talking at the inn, Crome's moral centre. By night, the sleeping selves...