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PREFACE TO A LIFE???Zona Gale? Appleton ($2). What is to become of a small-town Wisconsin man who, having escaped once into the great world, visits home and is trapped there for the rest of his life by a childhood sweetheart and a deathbed promise to his epileptic father? Miss Gale's answer: his suppressions may drive him insane?that is, up or down the scale of sanity?especially if, having succumbed hastily to the sweetheart, he falls in love with a woman of the world when it is just too late; a woman who waits...
...week, not one but eleven dinners. Dinners in Manhattan, Salt Lake City, Denver and San Francisco, dinners as well in London, Paris, Berlin, Lisbon, Tokyo, Manila and the Rand. What far flung company of friends is this? They are the friends of a man who has lived a full life???such a life as few men can or even could have lived, the life of John Hays Hammond, most radically democratic millionaire...
...House, from Sir Lionel Phillips and Masuki Otagawa (Japanese mine owner), from George Gordon Battle and Daniel Guggenheim, from Robert Herrick and Sol B. Joel, from Charles Beecher Warren and John J. McCarty. The list has almost no end, composed as it is of men in all walks of life???ambassadors, financiers, politicians, scientists, admirals, artists. And the names of most of these men are not merely lent as they might be to a worthy charity; they are men in whose lives he has played a part: Hadley at whose Alma Mater he got his education, Hearst whose father gave...
...last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Great steel skeletons point into the sky; steel-colored men, monotonously alike, pour life into them . . . Any Coney Island, with its merry-go-rounds, its sideshows, girls, sailors, street-cleaners, sandwich men, time clocks . . . No story, says Mr. Carpenter, just American life???Work and Play?"each with its own peculiar and distinctive rhythmic character"?American life for which Robert Edmund Jones designed the sets, for which Sammy Lee, famed director of Broadway revues, planned the choreography; in which jazz plays its restless, throbbing part, seems real, sincere because it does...
...MILITARY SIDE OF JAPANESE LIFE???Captain M. D. Kennedy?Houghton, Mifflin ($5.00). A badly written, yet illuminating book of doubtful military value. Its appreciation of the Japanese people, especially the military Japanese, makes it a veritable human document...