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COMPANY PARADE-Storm Jameson- Knopf ($2.50). Sooner or later most novelists worth their salt come to grips with a Big Subject. Fortnight ago Storm Jameson showed she has tackled hers. Like U. S. Author John Dos Passos (The 42nd Parallel, 1919), French Author Jules Remains (Men of Good Will), English Author Jameson has taken the contemporary scene as her model. Like theirs, her picture will be years in the making. Company Parade, which merely introduces the principal characters, is "the first of perhaps five, or six novels"; her finished magnum opus will be called The Mirror in Darkness. Readers...
Died. Le Baron Russell Briggs, 79, longtime Harvard clean & English professor; suddenly, of a heart ailment; while visiting his daughter in Milwaukee. Famed as a teacher of writing, he taught: Earl Derr Biggers, E. E. Cummings, Joseph Auslander, John Dos Passes, Frederick Lewis Allen, Conrad Aiken, Robert Benchley...
Restless travelers both, both endowed with a seeing eye, Aldous Huxley and John Dos Passos view the world through spectacles differently tinted. Huxley is an intelligentsiac, Dos Passos a neoCommunist. But both are as free as any lances to be found these days, and their eyewitness reports make worthwhile reading for stay-at-homes...
Weak-eyed Aldous Huxley, no such graphic reporter as Dos Passos, travels always with book in hand, but never a Baedeker. With a better seat in a library than on a horse, he is a hard man to upset in his own style of country. The physical peregrinations described in Beyond The Mexique Bay took him through Central America and Mexico, but many a peak in Darien, or even the depression of a valley, set him musing on an inner landscape. When he wants to, he can be as descriptive as the next 20th Century citizen, as in this definitive...
...oldtime religion, even cloaked in the new creed of Communism, is not quite good enough for John Dos Passos either. But in all countries he is glad to observe the old forms breaking up. First-rate reporter, he keeps his editorial comment packed, neatly tacit, between the lines. In All Countries is a collection of quick camera shots made in the last nine years in Russia, Mexico, Spain, the U.S. Dos Passes' angle is never strictly orthodox, from either camp's point of view, but his camera is candid, though tilted perceptibly to the left. His tale...