Word: mackail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Central Square--"Hard to Get" with Dorothy Mackail...
Central Square--"Hard to Get" with Dorothy Mackail...
GREENERY STREET-Denis Mackail -Houghton Mifflin ($2.00). To make a novel out of commonplace incidents in the first year of a pair of young English newlyweds, and avoid being "wet,"* is something of an achievement. Author MacKail has done it, with a very nice mixture of mock solemnity and featherweight irony. That is all there is to Greenery Street-two charming children, Ian and Felicity, finding their love-nest, scrimmaging with bills, terrified of their servants, diffidently "philosophizing." A very lovely elder sister almost gives the story a serious background by trying to bolt from her husband with another...
...According to Gibson" is a collection of short stories. As such, the stories are not particularly fascinating. However, Mr. Mackail--an English author who seems really to have an understanding of America--has managed to present the stories in such a charming manner and has woven such an interesting tale about the supposed teller of the stories that the book successfully holds one's interest throughout...