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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Little Irish Girl (Dolores Costello-Johnny Harron). This tale of the San Francisco underworld affords Dolores Costello the opportunity of playing the decoy for a grimy cafe of doubtful purpose. While she is concentrating on the business of luring in as many pocketsful of money as possible, there swims into her calculating ken the inevitable handsome youth - with whom she falls in love and to whose farm her comrades in crime depart in a body. Whereupon his grandmother proves that sharp wits are not all urban products. Miss Costello contributes another of her decorative and deft characterizations...
...SACRED TREE - Lady Murasaki - Translated by Arthur Waley - Houghton, Mifflin ($3.50). "Being a continuation," continues the title, "of The Tale of Genji," of which multivolumed novel of 11th Century Nippon (TIME, Aug. 3) a third part will shortly appear. Prince Genji, son of an imperial concubine, sustains the family's amative tradition with graceful zest and much discreet slippering through his father's seraglios and the chambers of ladies, married and otherwise, among the plebs. In this volume he survives an exile inflicted upon him by his mother's chief rival, for his courtesies to her younger...
ODTAA?John Masefield?Macmillan ($2.50). The tumultuous imagination of John Masefield, rather than fling itself upon an actual people, time and country, with the consequent danger of doing violence to truth, has invented not merely a fantastic tale but complete ethnological, political and geographical data to go with it. Highworth Ridden, youngest son of a hardbitten English squire, is followed through a color-splashed whirligig of adventure in the Republic of Santa Barbara (roughly, South America), where he chances to feel warmly toward the daughter of a great house politically hated by the slightly insane local tyrant, Dictator Lopez. There...
...DANCER'S CAT?C. A. Nicholson?Bobbs-Merrill ($2). An ostentatiously esoteric tale, the core of which may or may not be the weird relationship between a young Russian dancer, Lydie Manuiloff, and her Siamese cat, Pasha. Besides this problem in comparative psychiatry, there is a remarkably fine exposition of British and Russian reticences in conflict. Lydie and her English friends are all truth-tellers, but all carry the suppressions of their cultures. Lydie understands, is tolerant of their kind of truth. Her kind hurts them. In addition she is suspected of poisoning her fiance with fish that was actually...
CRADLE SNATCHERS?A bawdy tale of old women and young men, which seems to amuse almost everybody...