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Author Bedel has a droll vivacity all his own. When his Bolivian Planter Cortes, newly rich, buys up the old estate of Fontecreuse in Touraine (southern France ?the Contes Drolatiques country), he installs an elevator, removes a Gobelin tapestry which interferes with the acoustics of his Negro saxophonist, and engages a Russian Count to preside over his kitchen. The Count is Molinoff, a person of glamor. Molinoff forgets he is cook, remembers only he is count. He spends a few stolen hours every day with Anne and Françoise, young daughters of a neighboring poor-but-proud royalist family...
Julia Peterkin, for the best U. S. novel (Scarlet Sister Mary, published by Bobbs. Merrill, reviewed in TIME, Dec. 31), received $1,000. Author also of Green Thursday and Black April, Mrs. Peterkin uses all-Negro characters. She. white, is the wife of a South Carolina planter. She did not begin to write till...
...station door. . . ." A brief prelude concerning the Yankee slaver that bears its black cargo of misery to America, and quickly the artist sets himself to the stupendous task of setting the panoramic scene, North and South. From every corner they come. In the South, Clay Wingate, gentleman planter, gloated with boyish pride over boots and sabre, crisp new toys of war; but he brooded over their necessity. He knew the cause wasn't slavery, "that stale red-herring of Yankee knavery"; he knew it wasn't even states' rights. Vaguely he sensed it was a conflicting temperament...
Once in jail, Heinrich Langkopf made his great apologia on the basis of the following facts: 1) In 1914 he was established in German East Africa as a planter; 2) Immediately upon the declaration of War, he enlisted, fought, lived to see his whole property confiscated by the Allies; 3) For the past eight years he has been in Berlin with his wife and child, seeking the indemnity which is due him from the German War Indemnification Office, of which Privy Councilor Hugo Bach is chairman; 4) Due to bureaucratic delays, he has received only 9,000 marks, although promised...
Thus ends the play. In the intervening hour or so is spun the bitter story of a planter's lonely wife on the Malay Peninsula. There is no moral pointed, except perhaps that love sometimes dies young and for no reason. Leslie Crosbie was not a wholly vicious woman. Throughout the story, which ends in her confession that she shot her lover Hammond because he was living with a Chinese woman, she strangles truth lest her husband find out her guilt and the discovery break his heart. After the first few moments her every move is to spare from...