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Influenced by Henry James, Miss Richardson set out to write the first realistic novel probing the subconscious thoughts of a woman, a bold, original work that should be the feminine counterpart of Joyce's Ulysses and Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Its fatal flaw showed from the start: a reticence as amazing as Proust's and Joyce's candor. Her heroine, Miriam Henderson, is the daughter of a bankrupt upper middle-class family, restless, chauvinistic, anti-American, who leaves home when she is 17, teaches in girls' schools in Germany and London...
...greatest flaw in "American Landscape" is that its main character is something of a man of straw; the farm is unproductive because Captain Dale is a poor farmer; the factory is a failure because in lean years its owner operated out of sentiment rather than on intelligent business principles. In this act there is too much reiteration of what has gone before--too many characters state that their fathers lived and died in Dalesford, that their brothers perished in the war to end war, and too many handsful of warm loam are tossed to the Autumn wind...
Facts and Figures- "Mass production demands mass marketing" but as soon as demand slackens, says Dr. Nourse, the industrial executive cuts operations, lays off workers, increases promotion, tries installment selling-anything rather than cut prices. There is obviously a flaw in a system under which industry works only at part capacity, as it generally does. Dr. Nourse believes that if industry always operated at full capacity, the U. S. economic problem would be solved. The industrialist reluctant to cut prices as a means to this end might take a leaf from the farmer's book. Unable to limit...
Stars. Cinema offers actors one unique attraction: they can see themselves act. Its compensatory flaw is that they cannot have an audience while they act. For cinema stars, summer theatres, although the pay is small, have the advantage of allowing them to satisfy their desire for immediate attention without exposing themselves to Broadway dramatic critics whose comments might reduce their cinema earning power. Noteworthy cinemactors of this year's silo season are: Kitty Carlisle in her debut as a straight actress in French Without Tears (White Plains, N. Y.) ; Paulette Goddard in French Without Tears (Dennis, Mass.); Jean Muir...
...sobering results of his marriage, avers Ludwig, was that it trained him for keeping peace in Congress. Louis Howe's misanthropic advice checked his "easygoing nature." With his heroic fight against infantile paralysis, the playboy streak was eradicated. So far as Biographer Ludwig can see, the only remaining flaw in Roosevelt is a streak of Dutch stubbornness, and even that, he thinks, may be "Nature's compensation against his amiability." Even in tiny details he can find no dissonances in Roosevelt's harmonious blend of thought and action. "It is no accident," he declares, attesting Roosevelt...