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Lila Lee, doll-faced heroine of the silents, and off & on the theatrical comeback trail ever since, took it easy at a Saranac Lake, N.Y. tuberculosis sanitarium, said she was "doing beautifully," after nearly a year there, hoped to be back in Manhattan late this summer...
...DOLL AND ONE OTHER [138 pp.]-Algernon Blackwood- Arkham House...
...doll was cheap, with a flimsy dress, a wax face, a scraggly wig. But Monica, the Colonel's little daughter, loved it. The Colonel, when he saw it, ordered the doll burned or thrown away. As a rule, Mrs. O'Reilly, the cook, did what she was told, but this was such a nice, harmless little doll. "Oh, lovely, darling," she had said, giving it to Monica...
Author Algernon Blackwood, a bald, tall (6 ft. 2 in.) Englishman now 77, is still up to his old tricks. The Doll is his first book in ten years. It consists of merely two longish stories (the other: The Trod), both typical old-style Blackwood: sinister, spooky, uncanny. To the literal-minded, such writing appears to be raving nonsense. So, in one sense, it surely is, but Blackwood is almost as artful at making it seem plausible as Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's stories are mysterious and terrifying, but for the most part they can be explained in perfectly...
...Publisher. The stories in The Doll were written in Devonshire during the war, stuck in the hamper and almost forgotten. Blackwood dug them out when