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Such a man is proud old Frederick Henry Prince of Prides Crossing, Mass., Newport (where he bought the Marble House of the late Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont), and Pau and Paris, France. Returning to the U. S. last week from Europe, Frederick Henry Prince delivered himself of a dictum to which many a lesser U. S. businessman doubtless subscribed with admiration and respect...
...gallantry, which Director De Mille considered more affecting. As rewritten by Paramount's Scenarists Sidney Birchman and Waldemar Young, The Sign of the Cross is a Roman holiday of semi-civilized sentiment which is likely to redeem the $600,000 it cost, validate Director De Mille's dictum that no religious cinema has ever failed. Typical shot: Christians in a dungeon, waiting to be martyred, with a young and handsome female Christian under a beam of light in the centre...
Without going into the irrelevancy of detail, Shaughnessy-Sullivan gives the impression of having said what there was to say about his microcosmos, drops many a memorable remark by the way. Novel-addicts will cheer his dictum: "Novels, in particular, enlarge one's life. More than any other branch of literature they make one acquainted with the panorama of life, and with the variety of human emotions." His view on war is more practical than Kellogg's and the late Aristide Briand's: "It seems to me that the only way to prevent future wars...
...GLASTONBURY ROMANCE-John Cowper Powys-Simon & Schuster ($3.75). In spite of the considerable success of his two-volume novel Wolf Solent, in spite of Critic H. L. Mencken's dictum that no two-volume novel ever failed, Author Powys confines the 1,174 pages of his latest fanciful vignette within the covers of a single book. Hard on the reader's wrist, its insistent author's perverse philosophizing is liable to be hard on many a reader's patience too. "Folks 'ud rayther brew their own broth theyselves then...
...gratitude to Publisher George Putnam and to TIME for the reproduction of the photograph "Living Death," TIME, March 21. The picture of a well-groomed British officer in his uniform, close cut hair, firm lower jaw, straight gazing brave eye?and NO FACE between; caption quoted from army dictum: ''only the pleasant features...