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Critics of Author Caldwell who had begun to think that his zany style was effective largely because of its Rabelaisian grossness last week were thinking again, after reading Kneel to the Rising Sun, his latest collection of short stories. As in all Caldwell books, the phallic content was high-though not so gamy as to attract the attention of the censor-but the best of these 17 stories were more cathartic than aphrodisiac. Some of them...
...city boys were exemplary, the city girls of Mrs. Vina Delmar Alger are examples. While his boys swarmed up the ladders of success, her girls skid softly down self-greased ways to hell. His boys could not tell sex from a horsecar, her girls know skyscrapers are phallic. Though writing in this general drift (Bad Girl, Loose Ladies, Kept Woman], Authoress Delmar manages to steer her novels into waters of some depth. She is serious, sincere, sympathetic. At her best she grants a novelist's final absolution to the world-she writes of her characters as they would write...
...illustrating "How I keep fit at Fifty-Eight." Yet pictures of girls predominate in the periodicals. A favorite female pose is the sway-back with the mons veneris thrown forward. An advertisement by the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (Rosy Cross, Rosicrucians) dis- plays the ansate cross, phallic symbol. Yet the publisher pretends to give highly moral instruction, whereas in reality he salaciously veils salacities. He makes no appeal to the intellect, little to the emotions, almost all to the sensations below the zone...
...Publisher Is Indicted for a Little Phallic Ornament...