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...court of Queen Victoria, and the Government has a cabinet at present which has only once been equalled and never surpassed in the last 50 years. Mr. MacDonald is himself trying to life the peace," he concluded, "as Mr. Wilson lifted the war, from the plane of sordid materialism to that of inspired idealism...
...Point. An often impressive transcription of Mary Roberts Rinehart's book and play about amnesia, though it will leave the average witness at times in the same mental haze as the hero. Matt Moore gives a convincing portrayal of the young man who kills a rival in a sordid brawl, forgets his past and achieves respectability, only to have the long arm of the law reach out to yank him back to degradation. Nita Naldi as the siren who twice tries to wreck him is too corpulent to vamp anyone but a Turkish sultan...
...Confusion," a novel by J. G. Cozzens '26, is the biography of Cerise D'Atree. More significantly, it is a record of life as she found it: superficially, a tapestry of intricate, brilliant, and picturesque detail; inwardly, desperate and futile. There is nothing sordid or even tragic in any scene of this story to account for the complete disenchantment of life, which is the ultimate effect of the book as a whole. Its scenes are full of charm and delight and beauty, through which moves air extraordinary variety of real persons, most of whom accept the world at its face...
...Confusion", a novel by J. G. Cozzens '26, is the biography of Cerise D'Atree. More significantly, it is a record of life as she found it: superficially, a tapestry of intricate, brilliant, and picturesque detail; inwardly, desperate and futile. There is nothing sordid or even tragic in any scene of this story to account for the complete disenchantment with life, which is the ultimate effect of the book as a whole. Its scenes are full of charm and delight and beauty, through which moves an extraordinary variety of real persons, most of whom accept the world at its face...
SAYONARA -John Paris -Boni & Liveright ($2.00). Another Rain, in a Japanese setting: geisha girls, Anglican bishops, cherry blossoms, suicide. The author of the controversial Kimono has again scratched off the customary Oriental glamour and uncovered a realistic-at times amusing, at times sordid-picture of Japanese life. Beneath the rather melodramatic narrative runs an undercurrent of real seriousness, a sense of inscrutable, unconquerable differences between East and West, a shadow of the intangible fatalism of the Orient that is at once its peril and its charm...