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...much less ambitious scale, his picture of masculine Manhattan is reminiscent of Joyce's Dublin. Some of his characters are drawn from life: Manhattanites may recognize the portrait of Alfred Richard Orage, onetime lecturer, now editor of the London New English Weekly, who appears here under the pseudonym of "Storm...
...fault from the beginning because an outstanding lesson of the World War was that preparedness is not a factor that operates to preserve peace but rather one to foment and encourage war. The real lesson to be derived from gruesome war pictures is a condemnation of militarism and its pseudonym "pre-paredness." Your article, a frank statement of facts, does well in exposing this perversion of the facts...
JACK ROBINSON-George Beaton- Viking ($2.50). Author "George Beaton" (a pseudonym) subtitles his picaresque novel "an adventure in two worlds" (action, ideas). Readers who find one world at a time enough to bother about can hurdle the ideas in their stride without being tripped. The story of a runaway boy's adventures among the tramps of the English countryside, the down-&-outers of London, Jack Robinson really has two narrators: the unthinking but observant boy, the almost too reflective man he afterwards becomes. Without these sessions of sad, silent thought, Jack Robinson would be a straightaway racy tale...
...week he sent his magnificent Maybach-Zeppelin limousine back to France on the 5. S. De Grasse, departed on the 5. S. lie de France with his buxom young wife, his buxom young French secretary, his 9-year-old son Nen La Motte Sage (after the father's pseudonym), maids, valet. 30 trunks, 40 other pieces of luggage. Proudly he carried with him a green leather booklet signed B. Mussolini. The booklet is his "Fascist Membership Card," which he treasures above all the millions he has made out of catering to the aches and pains and physical vanities...
...began with hiring Frank Lloyd, who made Cavalcade, to direct; borrowing Leslie Howard, who played the rôle in John Balderston's play, to act Peter Standish; using a new British ingénue, Heather Angel, for Helen Pettigrew. Heather Angel's name is not a pseudonym. Daughter of an Oxford lecturer who was killed in the War, she attended a London dramatic school, took to the stage when its headmistress died. Her first real part was in the London stage production of The Sign of the Cross. Good shot: Peter Standish wondering whether history ("It doesn...