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...FLESH AND BLOOD-George Sylvester Viereck-Liveright ($3). Before the U. S. entered the War George Sylvester Viereck laid the foundations for his subsequent unpopularity by editing the pro-German Fatherland. In this book he quotes the characteristic compliment bestowed on him by the late Col. Henry Watterson's Louisville Courier- Journal: "A venom-bloated toad of treason." But politics and patriotism have never been Author Viereck's whole concern. In this "lyric autobiography," heavily humorless, egregiously egotistic, he tells everything anybody could possibly want to know about George Sylvester Viereck's life and loves. The book...
...SOPHISTICATES - Gertrude Ather-ton-Liveright...
NAKED on ROLLER SKATES*Maxwell Bodenheim-Liveright...
PETER ARNO'S HULLABALOO-Peter Arno-Liveright ($3).* Imaginary characters are harder to create, oftener still-born than their flesh-&-blood brothers. In a lifetime of creative endeavor, few artists or writers succeed in making one character come alive for longer than it takes to read the book, see the picture. Artist Arno's pictured people are at the opposite pole from immortality, but at least two of them have already had a life of their own: the late famed Whoops Sisters, who appeared four years ago in Manhattan's New Yorker. These two disreputable old harridans...
...Ward-Belmont School (Nashville, Tenn.) wrote a book "all by herself" called Schoolgirl. Therefrom this play has been made with the help of A. W. Pezet, who learned his playwriting at Professor George Pierce Baker's celebrated Harvard "47 Workshop." He is a onetime editorial adviser of Horace Liveright Inc., publishers of the Barnes book...