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Gamaliel Bradford, Archibald Henderson, Luigi Pirandello, Witter Bynner, Joseph Collins-with these, among lesser names, did the Virginia Quarterly Review (issued by the University of Virginia) dress out a maiden number dated April, 1925. Editor James Southall Wilson, Professor of English at the University, explained that this was only natural. Old tunes best demonstrate a new organ. For the future, the Quarterly coveted "the adventure of presenting distinguished first work wherever it can be found." It would be, in a measure, "peculiarly concerned with themes growing out of the life of the South and especially cordial to the work...
...plays an Algerian dance-hall girl in the background of whose tinseled existence is a U. S. soldier. She had formerly dedicated her life to a hulking Luigi who has saved her from drowning. She finds he was not worth...
...applause with the great clown himself. Happy once more, proud of her success, Tito feels that at last his love can be declared. But on that vacation ramble things have happened and Simonetta's eyes and heart are now another's. When Tito sees the string of pearls that Luigi has sent, his tortured anger in all its horror returns and, cursing the moment when they met, he cries for vengeance on the passionate Lothario. Too late, Luigi declares his sincerity and asks for Simonetta's hand in marriage. She loves the gallant, so what is there for the wretched...
...Simonetta comes and offers to be his wife, denying her love for Luigi. Tito knows better, and, after her departure, writes to tell her that she is free, and then in company with Flok, his partner, turns toward Monte Carlo for a holiday of gayety and dissipation...
...wonders, Wonders no more. We are sent home with disappointment and a happy ending. Miss Fenwick as Simonetta, charming and gracious though she be, is hopelessly miscast. She is too much the Anglo-Saxon, rather than Italian, nor does Raymend Bloomer, who takes the place of Ian Keith as Luigi, succeed altogether in convincing one of his powers as a cavalier...