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...background?a stockmarket panic?is the result of extraordinary financial foresight or extraordinary speed in production should be informed that it is simply luck. In plot and characters Wall Street is less lucky. It presents the fundamentally interesting but familiar and clumsily treated situation of an iron-sinewed, low-born trader who is in love with a beautiful, cultured woman. Ralph Ince and Aileen Pringle do as well as they can in these parts. Silliest shot: a ruined speculator committing suicide by jumping through an office window after a brief soliloquy...
...Young Foyle is cast upon an imaginary mid-Pacific island-not to found the new social order, but to encounter thrilling adventures among relics of four races: satyrs who mate with human beings, ruka-birds of uncanny intelligence, high-minded followers of the Priest of Gir, and the low-born descendants of a pirate crew. Satyr hunts, cannibalistic orgies, hair-raising escapes are in order. But Author Wright will rather be remembered for the swift ingenuity of his unique Deluge...
According to an apparently authoritative article in Current History, these three Presidents are three despots, double-dyed villains, low-born knaves, blood-sucking tyrants, enemies of light. Their points of similarity...