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Greenwich Village Follies. A spirited, sumptuous display of color and talent with a good deal of extraordinary dancing to paprika it???two mirthful comic acrobats, the Mandells, Daphne Pollard, the laugh-provoking vaudevillian of the piece, some lavishly-staged song numbers, good voices, splendid direction, noteworthy speed. Not quite as laughable in its high spots as the Music...
...product is not in all ways an acceptable substitute for the natural silk. Artificial silk is made mainly of either cotton linters or wood pulp, treated with picric acid; various secret processes give the resulting cellulose the required viscosity and sheen, by forcing it through tiny holes and spinning it???just the process of the silk worm when it spins its cocoon...
...Stories. The Doll's House deals with a wonderful doll's house given to some moderately well-to-do children. They treasure it???show it off to all their school friends except the little Kelveys, the washerwoman's daughters. Then one day the Kelveys do see it???and are almost instantly scolded away by a proper grownup. But they have seen it. The children in The Doll's House live and breathe?Katherine Mansfield told a little about them but not nearly...
...BACK SEAT?G. B. Stern? Knopf ($2.00). Robert Carruthers occupied it???he was the little pig who stayed at home making ornamental shelves while Leonora, his wife, one of the brightest stars of the British stage, informed interviewers how sincerely she yearned for the simple, homey existence her public would never really allow her. But when she got her chance at true domesticity?and her daughter, Faith, as the result of Robert's mild engineering, made a howling success of a part supposedly written for Leonora?she found the back seat a little too hard for her temperament and returned...
...made little difference to domestic business. Financial Germany, like Charles II, has already taken an unconscionable time in dying. Her desperate economic illness has worn out the sympathies of the world. Now most American bankers and business men sincerely wish she would definitely explode and be done with it???after which something might be made out of the pieces. The longer this inevitable catastrophe is delayed, the harder and slower the task of reconstruction is bound...