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...MAGNIFICENT HOAX-E. Phillips Oppenheim-Little, Brown ($2). Last week E. Phillips Oppenheim published his 100th novel. This year rounds out a half-century of writing. Next October he will be 70. "E. Phillips Oppenheim" is more than a man's name: it has become a familiar phrase for bejewelled melodrama. In the 50 years Author Oppenheim has been doing business his trademarked product has become as well known and as popular as a successful breakfast food, and for the same reasons : it is a standard brand and it pleases the public palate. To analyze an Oppenheim book would...
...Oppenheim books taste of aristocratic beauties, international spies, missing jewels, noblemen in disguise, lurking assassins. They have a spice, but just a spice, of sex. And through them all trickles, a rich essence of good food and drink. The latest Oppenheim is no exception to the Oppenheim rule. Reduced to its crude elements of malt, sugar and salt, it might seem a lifeless and unlikely concoction. But to Oppenheim addicts it is a thoroughly lively and likely affair...
...dictatorships. He had a glowing reputation as "America's greatest reporter" based on his books, Georgia Nigger and America Faces the Barricades. Partial to underdogs, he paid calls on Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia over a period of five months. Despite radical bias and E. Phillips Oppenheim sensationalism, his findings, published last week as Europe Under The Terror,* gave U. S. readers a good chance to size up both Europe's tyrants and the people they tyrannize...
...readers unaccustomed to Ford Madox Ford's style, Vive Le Roy might seem, almost purposely confusing. It might also seem as if everyone in the book were going about in disguise-Author Ford himself in a rather hasty imitation of E. Phillips Oppenheim. Those who are not too impatient to put up with his sighing way of writing may persevere through his ingenious plot and discover that he has written a thriller. But even Ford fans will not compare Vive Le Roy with Author Ford's War novels. Still a first-rate gossip at 62, some...
...Victor Sassoon. who shifted a fortune of 85 million dollars Mex. to China to escape high taxes, the author pauses, describing their exploits with a shudder not entirely justified by his facts. Stating that conservatives now "have control of the British Intelligence Service, Unofficial Observer propagates an E. Phillips Oppenheim theory of history in suggesting that Sir Basil Zaharoff was once regarded as the power behind the Service, that it "was not altogether ignorant" of the true reasons for the mysterious deaths of Alfred Loewenstein and Prince Radziwill. Their attempt to form rayon companies and a European steel cartel menaced...