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...Wyck Brooks, an editor of The Freeman, was awarded The Dial Prize for "the best work of the year in American letters." His essays on Henry James were described as his most signal work for 1923. Two previous awards of this $2,000-prize have gone to Sherwood Anderson and T. S. Eliot...
...interested, but a trifle surprised at some of its phases, perhaps a trifle withdrawn from it. To them, realism consists of the painting of life as something which has its morbid moments; but these moments they find it better in their art to suggest rather than to display. When Sherwood Anderson's hero in Many Marriages divests himself of his clothes and parades naked before a glass, he is not only symbolical of the idea of Mr. Anderson's novel but of the strange and exaggerated narcissism of the younger realists. In the face of such aberrations...
Confronted with the impossibility of including in the volume excerpts from the moving pictures themselves, as Mantle includes selections from the written drama, Sherwood overcomes the obstacle by giving reviews of the different films, with the plots, casts of characters, and methods of production. In this manner he has taken sixteen representative photoplays of the season 1922-1923, which he considers the best of the field. It is, of course, the prerogative of anyone to quarrel with the choice of matter included in an anthology; but whether Sherwood's choice of the best movies meets with everyone's approval...
...value as a "year-book of the American screen" is further enhanced by virtue of the last two hundred pages being a true mine of information on all subjects connected with motion picture production. Mr. Sherwood has listed a Who's Who, which is in fact, a Social Register of the screen, and probably just as exclusive. He has also appended a list of moving picture publications, a glossary of movie vocabulary, and various other things of interest to moving picture fans, as well as to students of the art of the motion picture...
...Sherwood admits in his preface that there is something wrong with the movies, but that there is also a great deal that is good in them; and it is with the latter element that his book deals. For those desiring a more comprehensive and a more permanent record of American "movies" than can be found in the current photo-play magazines, "The Best Moving Pictures" forms a handbook and a book of reference entirely without rival in its field...