Word: readers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worst more artificial than sophisticated, at its best moving to a degree, especially if the reader can read vicariously, Chéri is a novel of pre-War Paris with naturalistic approach. Its value is enhanced by ten illustrations by Herman Post, lately of Simplizissimus (Munich political-satirical weekly). In France the novel, not new, is in its 95th edition, a total respectable even in France where "editions" are smaller than...
...Virgin," "Accidents Will Happen" and "Fairies." Copious material is drawn from Bernarr Macfadden's ill-famed pornoGraphic. Photographs include one showing three U. S. girls in barber chairs with their faces lathered, three barbers standing by with razors upraised. The tongue-in-cheek caption gravely informs the reader that "the Eve of today ... is masculine in her strength . . . goes to the barber and uses the Gillette...
...Significance. Author Leonard's approach to Steinmetz, though factual, is tinged with hysterical admiration, the breathlessness of the new esthetic Science. It is sharply "written down" to the reader's level, contains much carping over the Steinmetz Socialism. Subject, not treatment, makes this biography outstanding...
...Reader Roop is unduly alarmed. Japan entertained the plan prior to Hawaii's annexation...
...strain to paint women. They must constantly be amused," he says. For women who interest him as subjects he designs clothes. Women with whose ideas about posing themselves he takes issue, should feel flattered rather than other- wise. They are "worth bothering about." Of necessity an ethnologist and character-reader of sorts, he says dark-haired people have more depth of character than light-haired and make better subjects psychologically as well as pictorially. Beauty attracts him less than "interesting" faces. Says...