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...brought to the screen-and even if you are a little weary of seeing a strongly American band of sans-culottes demolish a pasteboard Paris, you should not miss Scaramouche, for it is quite the best thing Rex Ingram has done since The Four Horsemen. The story follows Sabatini's novel closely enough-the stroller-swordsman hero (Ramon Navarro) is dashingly effective-the scenes of the storming of the royal palace are incredibly exciting-the Danton of George Siegmann presents, for once, a hero rather than a ranter-Alice Terry is a suave and lovely aristocrat...
...LIFE OF CESARE BORGIA? Sabatini? Brentano ($4.50). Iron men in "an age of steel and velvet" ? the growth, rampage and decline of the Borgian Bull? in the fields of Renaissance Italy? a biography that for color, excitement and human interest ranks with the best of Sabatini's adventurous novels, but a biography which displays throughout a steadfast adherence to historical fact. Sabatini does not attempt to whitewash the terrific Cesare, but he does explode a number of usual errors concerning and flimsy accusations against him. Life in the Borgia home was not, as is commonly supposed, just...
FORTUNE'S FOOL -Sabatini -Houghton Mifflin ($2.00). Colonel Randall Holies, sometime of the Parliamentary Army that crushed Charles I, regicide's son and broken adventurer, found little scope in the Merry England of Charles II for his sword. Hounded by poverty and evil fortune, he stooped at last to lend himself to a discreditable plot of the Duke of Buckingham's-the abduction of the beautiful actress, Sylvia Farquharson, for his Grace's amorous purposes. But the vile act once accomplished, and the well known Sylvia discovered to be his boyhood sweetheart, Holies proved properly heroic...
Scaramouche. Rafael Sabatini has made a melodrama from his picturesque novel. Sydney Blackmer and J. M. Kerrigan will figure prominently...
...Bill and Justice Ford's unmarried daughter?wonder what Justice Ford's unmarried daughter thinks about it all??Gertrude Atherton?Black Oxen?hoping against hope that the Steinach process of rejuvenation will not be applied to various literary prominencies?books about sex?a few books not about sex?Sabatini and the gorgeous return of cloak-and-sword...