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DOWN IN FLAMES-Ben Ray Redman -Payson & Clarke...
Author Ben Ray Redman, 34, served in the Royal Flying Corps during the War, was scout pilot of the 79th Squadron of the British Expeditionary Forces. Poet, critic, essayist, translator, short-story-writer, he was literary editor of The Spur, now writes a weekly column, "Old Wine in New Bottles," for the New York Herald Tribune. In 1926 he married Actress Frieda Inescort. Other books: Masquerade, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Gustave Flaubert-a Biography...
...true French Canadian woodsman, mourns his tomahawked mother. He rescues the beautiful maiden Toinette. With their faithful dog, they escape the Mohawks only to be captured by bloody Senecas. Toinette's beauty subtly prevails upon the chief to spare their lives, and for months they live according to Redman's ritual in Chenufsio, Hidden Town. A priest happens along to join the white lovers in respectable matrimony, whereupon sudden lurid tragedy separates them for dreary years. But at last the dog unites Jeems with his wife and unsuspected child...
They were to find a "native" theme. Indians? Witchcraft? Skyscrapers? No, the most native to U. S. spirit, decided Miss Millay, is the old Saxon legend. The Saxon is nearer than the redman; the turbulent warrior dearer than the Puritan, to our age. Theirs was a forthright, swaggering, romantic spirit. Mr. Taylor would write his music true to the hunt, the forest, the clash of sword, the misty superstitions, the feudal ideals of loyalty...
Senator-elect Gould is entitled to take his seat on Dec. 6 in the 69th Congress, and continue to serve through the 70th Congress. Thus, the slim Republican control Of the next Senate is still safe. However, Mr. Redman threatens to fight to unseat Mr. Gould, while at the same time, the Democrats are contesting the seats of Senators-elect Vare of Penn sylvania and Smith of Illinois...