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...finds Julia also a widow. They settle down to an earnest sisterly tussle for admiration and happiness, envy matching envy with competitive malice. Julia still has money and looks, so the reader's sympathy is meant to go to crippled, homely, honest Elena. But Elena is more shrewish than shrewd. Her experiments with new religions are wan and woeful. The backgrounds -Manhattan, Italy, unnamed places -are nebulously uninteresting, taking the edge off such intensity as Authoress MacConnell and her characters may possess. A ripe theme and much good characterization go to waste through fireless cooking...
...taming of shrewish Mr. Mencken...
This is all by way of launching a compliment at the editors of the American Mercury for the use they are making of newspaper men. It is also by way of calling your attention to the taming of the shrewish Mr. Mencken. For twenty years Mr. Mencken has jeered, snorted and chortled at the American newspaper man. Now he is, with the cooperation of Mr. Nathan, editing the best of current magazines and depending upon newspaper men for a large part of his copy...
SEVENTH HEAVEN?Up among the Paris chimney pots, Helen Menken suffers to the breaking point the verbal and physical abuse of a shrewish sister. Later she plays the Marseillaise on sister's anatomy with a long black whip and almost everyone but sister is sittin' pretty at the finale...
...Winter Comes. A fairly skillfull adaptation of A. S. M. Hutchinson's famous novel, distinguished by the acting of Cyril Maude. The marital tragedy of a kindly, humorous and thoroughly ineffectual man, whose motives are constantly misunderstood by a shrewish wife. The best part of" the book is left out because of the alleged superior dramatic effectiveness of melodramatic incident, and the episodes featuring the comic servants High Jinks and Low Jinks are underplayed, but a sustained interest and suspense is maintained nevertheless. A competent caste helps to revive enthusiasm for the dramatic version of last year's literary sensation...