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...VEGETABLE-F. Scott Fitzgerald-Scribner ($1.75). An Alger theme Fitzgeralded through three acts of a mildly amusing play. Jerry Frost was one of the 9,999 who, according to insurance statistics, would fail to be self-supporting at the age of 70. A meek and henpecked failure, he cherished two secret ambitions 1) to be President of These States or, failing that, 2) to be the very best postman in the world. Synthetic gin enabled him to gratify both desires, the first in what psychoanalysts call " the dream-life," the second in reality. In the act, where Frost thinks...
...course, are eager for annexation to the United States. Most of them are negroes, and they have heard of our lynching bees, Jim Crow discriminations and grandfather clauses with increasing envy. The people of Barbados are tired of having magazine writers describe their perfect government, as recently in Scribner's, and want a little Thompsonism or E. Mont Reilyism. As for the Philippines, every one knows that the Tribune for a quarter century has led the Republican press in such demands as 'Haul down the flag!' 'We want scuttle!' and 'Bryan is right...
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PLAYS ?Edited by Arthur Hobson Quinn? Scribner's ($2.00). There is a good deal of satisfaction in holding post mortems on printed plays a year or so after seeing them. Reprints are of even greater value to those who for one reason or another have missed the original presentation. The plays selected for this volume are all Broadway successes of recent date. Probably the most interesting is Eugene O'Neill's remarkable experiment, The Emperor Jones. The other four are Why Marry?, Nice People, The Hero, To the Ladies...
FOUR OF A KIND?J. P. Marquand ?Scribner's ($1.75). This volume is made up of four swift-moving, active, unpretentious tales. They are a little longer than short stories, not long enough to be called novels. Their chief merit rests in the young author's vigor of presentation, his quick eye for externals, a certain freshness of viewpoint. One of the four is concerned with a prizefighter; another with a debutante; the third story is set in an advertising office; the last is a tale of horses and the riding thereof...
...distinguished poet, parodist and critic. With the lightest possible touch, he conveys the most penetrating criticism. In Essays at Large, he gives unlimited scope to his varied interests. In Books Reviewed, as the title indicates, he restricts himself more closely to themes literary. THE FLOWER IN DRAMA-Stark Young-Scribner's ($1.50). Mr. Young, critic for The New Republic, observes the current drama with a more leisurely eye than the critics of the daily press. His speculations are always interesting, frequently fundamental. Among other phases of the drama under his analysis are acting in general, that...