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...Girandoux--Paul Morand", Professor Morize, Sever...
...Paul Morand, French novelist quoted in a Boston newspaper, confirms the belief that most muses, at least, are mercenary. According to this Parisian observer. The United States is not the big adolescent boor that it used to be. Newly-graduated students of American Universities who have returned from abroad suave, polished, and touched with Europe will be pained to hear that culture passed them by on their first voyage, going the other...
...around Salt Lake City marks another triumph under the banner of the dollar sign. Bitter will be American globe-trotters and steamship lines when the culture-minded will see America last as well as first and hesitate to venture into barbarous and depleted Europe. Thanks are due to M. Morand who finally has made the startling discovery that the red Indian and the bucking broncho are no longer prevalent in this country...
...French have toward Negroes a laboratory attitude, disinterested, refreshing. Volatile Author Morand reflects it in these stories. One of them, "Good-bye, New York!," tells of an exotic beauty who starts out on a de luxe cruise around Africa. She and her maid occupy the royal suite. Her emeralds are the squarest, her mink the darkest. She speaks to only one fellow-passenger, a Bostonian, whom she takes suavely for her lover. A gossiping busy-body spots her as a Negress "passing" for white, horrifies a huddle of dowagers with the news...
Engaged in the French diplomatic service, Author Morand has written skilful takes of the Sudan, India, Indo-China. His collection of Negro stories is based upon 30,000 miles of travel in 28 Negro countries, from Harlem to Jibuti, Guadeloupe to Timbuktu...