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Thus, it was learned last week, pleaded counsel for Publishers Doubleday, Doran & Co. in asking dismissal of a $150,000 libel suit brought in Manhattan by Neil Callahan, onetime reporter for the New York Sun. Callahan claimed that he and his wife, whose name was Hester Robinson, were maliciously portrayed as "Ralph Halloran" and "Rebecca Robishek," leading characters in a book called Rebecca the Wise by Josef Israels II, codefendant...
...Cecil Graham I. C. Martin '34 Lady Plimdale Susan Field Lord Plimdale H. R. Herrmann '32 Mrs. Cowper-Cowper Barbara Wortheim Lady Jedburgh Emmeline Hill Lady Agatha Carlysle Mary Emmons Mr. Guy Berkeley W. M. Kilcullen '34 Miss. Dorothy Graham Louise Smith Lady Royston Ruth Pfeifer Lady Stutfield Hester Blatt Rosalie Christine Lanningan
...Connie," insisted woebegone, calico-clad Tiller Ruminer, on whose testimony the four-Herman Greenway, Joe White, Hubert Hester, Bill Younger-were indicted. She repeated her lurid story of a night last March when, as she and Franklin set out to be married, they were attacked by the defendants. She testified: "Connie yelled out 'Till, Till, they're akillin' me!' Then Joe White slammed a big rock on his haid. I couldn't help him none because Greenway was adraggin' me into the bushes. Then Hester came and helped Greenway do what he was doin...
Monica, well bred, was exceedingly cordial to Hester; but Hester was rude with harum-scarum honesty. She swept Clive off to her world of modernistic furniture, and noisy banter, while Monica quietly retired from London to the country. Then Hester, disturbed by the misery she felt in Clive, in Monica, could not leave well enough alone; followed her mother-in-law, and by malicious coincidence found an old lover among Monica's new friends. Monica, quick to recognize the situation, flared into unaccustomed wrath, disrupting the close understanding between Clive and his wife. Only by the deftest handling...
Without The Little French Girl's taut loveliness, without the strange fascination of The Old Countess, Dark Hester is acute portrayal of delicately balanced human relationships, done into tight infallible prose...