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RACHEL MOON - Lorna Rea - Harper...
...Author. Lorna Rea (Mrs. Philip Russel Rea) wrote "passionately romantic" short stories as a child. At Cambridge, England, she studied under "Q" (Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch); the War sidetracked her to medicine; marriage sidetracked that. When her husband was ordered to Switzerland for his health, she took her two children along, decided to start writing again. Her first book was Six Mrs. Greenes...
Written in a style more reminiscent of Author Richard Doddridge Blackmore (Lorna Doone) or of Bonn Byrne, Gallows' Orchard yet has in it something of the fateful quality of Hardy, something of the imminence of Hawthorne, something of the easy narrative of Stevenson...
...thoroughly dependent on its score as is this one. Twenty-three musical numbers, most of them of the hearty tone in which a good chorus outdoes itself, more than balance the antiquated comedy. The vocal ability of the cast is wholly satisfactory: two former members of grand opera companies, Lorna Doone Jackson and Greek Evans, are outstanding. Miss Jackson, in the graceful part of Allan-a-Dale, sings the too familiar "Oh Promise Me", and "The Bells of St. Swithins", with charm and a certain amount of delicate emotion. Mr. Evans' baritone leads excellently the chorus of "Brown October...
...GREENES-Lorna Rea- Harpers...