Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...String" by Charles Allen Smart condenses the material of a novel into reminiscence, as introduction to a pretty turn of direction in mood that might have been the perfect idea of a lyric. The treatment of material indicates a failure to see the prose values of material and the sort of prose effect that it is possible to obtain with given material. But if one accepts the misapplication of lyric form, the management in detail is powerful. "The Hanging of Kruscome Shanks" by Walter D. Edmonds Jr., comes much nearer to being a short story. In detail the story commands...
...Abbott. "Angled twigs, skeletons of the summer, the gust surges through the trees in floods, the smother grief, and smother hope lest disappointment grieve, the range of hissing sea foam as its creamy lines slide down the sand"--almost every phrase is in itself alive with a sort of electric thrill. "Sharon" by Stuart Ayers is pleasantly young, pretty, musical in the ear that listens to "something singing over the hill". The pastoral images are there again and the wistful feeling that escapes "over the hill". Content with these elements of poetry, Mr. Ayers depends on simplicity of statement...
...Eden Phillpotts had not named his subsequent comedy "Devonshire Cream", "The Wife Hunter", which opened Monday night at the Wilbur Theatre, might more appropriately have been entitled "The Devonshire Hunt", or something of the sort. Certainly "The Wife Hunter" is far more applicable to a Broadway bedroom farce than to a gentle comedy of southern England. Even the old title, "The Farmer's Wife", though a trifle misleading, is better than the one finally selected, which induces a most unwarranted preconception of Mr. Charles Coburn in the role of a dashing and sophisticated Lothario...
...think there's a sort of something that's called-a wall-aboo...
...author does much to his public," he said the other day. ''He hasn't any right to give them the sort of story they don't expect from him. He must keep faith with them and do his best to see that his work never bores them. That is the writer's unforgiveable...