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...MERTON OF THE MOVIES-A skilful dramatization of Harry Leon Wilson's story of the movie-struck youth who quite unintentionally becomes a great comedian, with a corresponding loss of illusions...
Some popular favorites now appearing in Manhattan: Ethel Barrymore (The Laughing Lady); Jane Cowl (Romeo and Juliet); Lenore Ulric (Kiki); Helen Menken ( Seventh Heaven); Glenn Hunter (Merton of the Movies); David Warfield (The Merchant of Venice); Lowell Sherman (The Masked Woman and Morphia); Margaret Lawrence (Secrets); Billie Burke (Rose Briar); Peggy Wood (The Clinging Vine...
...contributors to the book are Norman Cabot, Grant Code, Malcolm Cowley, Jack Merton, Joel T. Rogers, R. Cameron Rogers, Royall Snow, and John Brooks Wheelright. All of them, in various degrees, justify their right to a place in the volume...
...Norman Cabot writes with a pleasant hardness and bite of intellectual irony; and Mr. Grant Code is adept in showing his reader a kaleidescope of vivid and colorful details. Mr. Wheelright displays a cleverness which would perhaps be more at home in prose than in verse; and Mr. Merton writes with the neatness, if not with the power, of a Landor. And, finally, in Mr. Snow and Mr. R. Cameron Rogers one finds serious effort toward a self-realization which is not yet quite accomplished, but which holds good promise. Altogether, the book is more than a Harvard anthology...
...students, as the Times puts it, if these things exist in the degree that he thinks they do and they seem to, not only among some undergraduates but among men long out of college who are so devilishly clever that they make on turn with relief to Sanford and Merton. The trouble with these superior, people is that out of the bowels of their own cleverness they spin a web in which hangs nothing but dreary, dessicated warnings to us not to be so devilish clever. When a man has reached the height where he can prove beyond a doubt...