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BARREN METAL-Naomi Jacob-Macmillan ($2.50). A sentimental family chronicle with an all-Jewish cast of London clothing manufacturers. Beautiful, intuitive, afflicted with a charming lisp, Rachel Pardo struggles for 20 years to save her soul from Husband Meyer's beautifully appointed hell in the West End, succeeds when she goes back to the Ghetto after he is jailed for fraud...
...past, the story tells why. Karen is young, beautiful, intelligent, one of an English family so aristocratic that it can afford not to be snobbish. She is engaged to just the right man; he has gone to the Orient on business for several months. Karen has a French friend, Naomi, of the governess type; she too is just engaged. Karen knows and dislikes the fiance, Max, an intense French Jew, does not want to see him again, but Naomi insists. When Karen and Max meet once more, the fat is in the fire-they are in love at a glance...
Neither says or does anything about it, until one night Max calls her up from Paris, arranges to meet her at Boulogne. For a night they are lovers, after which everything comes out. Naomi knows, Karen's mother has to be told. Before the tangle can be unraveled, Max has killed himself. Karen goes abroad to have her baby, Naomi back to her house to be an old maid. The story comes back to the present again, and now the reader knows that the little boy is Karen's son, and it is Naomi's house where...
...last minute she wires Naomi that she cannot come, cannot face it. The little boy is heartbroken, recovers in time to meet his stepfather, who comes instead, in a well-meaning but highly nervous condition. At his first marvelous sight of Paris at night, the little boy forgets his dreamed-for mother and his tragic...
...serials a year. Unlike Romancer Norris, who can carry on a conversation and manage her household while typing out her novels, Author Baldwin slaves and suffers over her work, cuts and revises in her striving for narrative smoothness and speed. A great admirer of the work of her friend Naomi Mitchison, painstaking historical novelist, Author Baldwin confesses to serious intellectual interests, would rather be "a biologist, an obscure scientist, an actress, a doctor, an explorer" than the most rapidly rising U. S. writer of popular magazine fiction...