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...most of the denizens of her back yard are indeed a queer lot. Most normal seem blood relations to characters out of D. H. Lawrence or Katherine Mansfield. Her stories are glimpses of people rather than peep shows of action, and often do not "make sense." Yet even her slyest grotesques are recognizably, though often cruelly, human. Some of them...
Greatest of living Hungarian dramatists, slyest of cynics, surest of technicians, he has had successful plays in Manhattan theatres almost continuously since the U. S. premiere of Liliom (1921). Successes: The Swan, The Guardsman, The Play's the Thing, and many another...
...have him compose stinging refusals. Nor did she succumb to the Prince of Wales (George IV) in a guilty mood. To her he was verily Prince Charming, up to the moment of commitment. Her second seduction, by Charles Fox, was a helpless lady's surrender to the slyest of flattery; he wooed her "parts," her "unsuspected powers." ... So writes generous E. Barrington-L. Adams Beck, the double-barreled lady who has lately risen to fame as an expositor of Oriental mysticism (Splendour of Asia, The Ninth Vibration, etc.) and simultaneously as biographer of the Duchess of Fenton (The Chaste...