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What story there is to this slim, slight comedy concerns an impoverished French gentleman, a refugee from the Revolution, named Paul (Pierre Fresnay). Turning adventurer, he picks up a virginal chanteuse, takes her across the Channel to Brighton. It is 1811; Brummell struts at Bath; in & out of prim Adam...
CHAPTERS FOR THE ORTHODOX-Don Marquis-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Last week, as usual since the world began, plain readers were more inclined to listen to the sweet unreason of kindly old fellows like Will Rogers and Don Marquis than to the expert kidding of more incisive minds.
For Don Marquis has endeared himself to the U. S. by padding his critical punches; his fiercest uppercuts are the merest invigorating taps on a cheerfully welcoming chin. Many a critical reader of Chapters for the Orthodox will get no farther than Author Marquis's prefacing remarks, in which...
A year later, irrepressible "Bernie" Baruch ended his 64th year by pulling out of Wall Street, moving his office from No. 120 Broadway four miles uptown to the corner of 57th and Madison (TIME, July 2). He was resolved that the financial district should see less of him, the public...
THE QUEENEY LETTERS?Edited by the Marquis of Lansdowne?Farrar & Rinehart ($3). Letters, some hitherto unpublished, to "Queeney" Thrale from Fanny Burney, Mrs. Thrale-Piozzi and Dr. Samuel Johnson.