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...triangle of Eve, Lilith, and poor old Adam, who gets tossed up and down in the web of their attractions like a fresh-man in a blanket. First Lilith gets him, then Eve, then Lilith, then Eve. (Then he gets a son. The gaieties of Author Erskine's dialog which can be so easily minimized by an understanding of his easy tricks remain as insidious as ever; and now as he points out once more the original sophistication of woman and the enduring naiveté of the male, he can be called shallow or specious, but he cannot...
...COUNTERFEITERS-Andre Gide -Alfred A. Knopf ($3). A chief character is the novelist. He describes how he is planning his book; observing characters; taking notes. The book is a story of this planning, broken into bits of narrative, snatches of dialog, description, with constant quotations from the author's own diary in which he comments on the theory of the novel and the progress of his own. M. Gide is French; his book set in Paris, Switzerland, etc., etc. The book has no story in the accepted sense; is often described by the character-novelist as "a slice...
...ladies helped immensely. They were Alice Duer Miller* writing into her first play (alone) much genial, glinting dialog; and Madge Kennedy, fascinating...
...Thursday, telephone communication between Washington and Mexico City was established and the Presidents of the two countries, each surrounded by subordinates with headphones, inaugurated the service by reading to each other a formally prepared dialog from their respective ends of the wire. President Coolidge read first: "I am deeply impressed, President Calles, by the significance of this occasion. . . . "President Calles read back (in Spanish) : "I am very happy personally to return the greetings of Mr. Coolidge, the President of the United States, over the telephone. . . ." Diplomacy got no specific mention...
...gave Cyrano his white plume and that they are not much less pathetic for being so much more absurd. The audience wished only for something to happen to this charming old rogue to spur him out of what promised in the first two acts to be a bog of dialog. Baby Cyclone. Playwright George M. Cohan is an authority on husbands & wives. In his newest farce, he sets down that "whereas a woman has a whole bagful of tricks, a man has only one-the hat trick." This trick consists in the man's donning his hat and leaving...