Word: sorrell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...district attorney or the husband oftener than the hero, gets fewer letters than younger stars, but has established his reputation as one of the most skillful actors in Hollywood. He is married, six feet tall. Some of his good pictures were The Doctor's Secret, The Divine Lady, Sorrel...
...against real competition, though he went the route against Georgetown a fortnight ago, limiting them to six hits. The portsider also pitched two innings against the Purple last Saturday, during which time no Holy Cross man completed the circuit. MacHale probably will be held in the relief role. The sorrel-topped righthander has improved steadily throughout the year, and is now closely pressing Howard Whitmore '29 as the leading Crimson hurler...
KITTY-Warwick Deeping- Knopf ($2). Sex, sentimentality, simplicity-the formula upon which Author Deeping constructed his first best seller Sorrel and Son, his second best seller Doomsday, is, in this opus, not so much complicated by the more difficult factors of good storytelling and sound characterization. In the story of Kitty, a shopgirl, Alex St. George, who marries her, and Clara St. George, his tigerish mother, there is a return to the maudlinity that kept Author Deeping so long upon the lists of the unheralded. Probably even the fact that Alex St. George is a British soldier will not serve...
...wide end of the telescope; they are not Individuals through whom a type Is suggested, but rather flat and insignificant figures glimpsed through the blurring lens of gen- erality. A man of little skill with words, he gets his effects with pa- tience and a hammer. To his famed Sorrel and Son he attached a long-burning fuse and its sale now exceeds 100,000. This latest book is interesting if only because it too may contain that element, for critics still undefined, which gives a book enormous popular appeal...
...Upholster's apprentice into French Senator, into cynic. JILL - E. M. Delafield - Harper ($2). Life in looser London. CUSTODY CHILDREN - Everett Young - Holt ($2.50). Battledore and shuttlecock with the daughter of divorcees. POWER - Lion Feuchtwanger - Viking Press ($2.50). The rise and fall of Jud Siisz, great Jew. SORREL AND SON - Warwick Deeping* - Knopf ($2.50). How a son justified his father's confidence...