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...knew her not as Alice, but more romantically as Kiki. Though she was flamboyantly real and fabulously full-blown, she was to most of the artists, revolutionaries, Babbitts, drunkards and dreamers more a symbol than a person. To the tortuous '20s in Paris, Kiki was what George du Maurier's lovely, fictional Trilby (whose tiny feet were called the most beautiful in the Quarter) had been to a former generation of Bohemians. Nobody ever looked at Kiki's feet...
...KING'S GENERAL-Daphne du Maurier-Doubleday...
Readers will not have to dig much farther than this into The King's General to know that Daphne du Maurier has again struck pay dirt in the same lode that produced her best-selling Rebecca and Jamaica Inn. Her new novel (the Literary Guild's January selection) is a hose-and-doublet pageant of the English Civil War (1642 to 1646) for which Miss du Maurier's agent has whispered loudly to Hollywood that $250,000 will do. The chief characters of The King's General are mostly out of English history; .heir lusty, gusty...
Novelist du Maurier's romantic whoop-dedo also includes a Puritan witch, a villainess with "serpent's eyes," a secret passageway with moldering bones in it, floods of blood, and scads of Gestapolike Roundheads...
Readers that year were flocking to buy a bucolic novel about the Scottish village of Drumtochty by Ian Maclaren and a nostalgic romance of Paris' Latin Quarter by a British illustrator named George du Maurier. Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush and Trilby became the first "bestsellers" -a new word in the language...