Word: trent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tomorrow afternoon before entraining for Princeton. Leaving at five o'clock they will spend the night in New York; on Friday they will proceed to Princeton for a slight workout in the Palmer Stadium. Friday evening the squad will motor to Trenton to spend the night at the Stacey Trent Hotel. On Saturday they will return to Princeton to meet the Tiger before a crowd...
...nowhere Adam Trent arrives on board the pirate brig. Immediately preceding him comes Hilda Borner, beautiful maiden from a captured schooner in the time honored guise for maidens aboard pirate brig-cabin boy's gear. Promptly Trent subdues the crew. Promptly Trent falls in love with her. Promptly the crew, too, discover her sex. There follow ominous and entertaining rattles of the daggers of romantic drama...
Pedro de Cordoba, cast as the triumphant Trent, plays with a fine technique but without humor and the indispensable grand mannerisms of a pirate hero. The ferocity of the crew and the fine feminine helplessness of Carroll McComas are wholly satisfactory...
Volume Six completes the series. It consists of 682 pages, with 35 plates, and deals with the 18 minor mints of the Venetian Republic, including Aquileja, Gorizia, Marano, Trent...
...POCKETFUL OF POSES?Anne Parrish?Doran ($2.00). A delightful first novel, intelligent, humorous and civilized, concerned with the first twenty-odd years or so of the life of Marigold Trent, whose " guiding impulses " were " politeness and a feeling for the dramatic." She posed to herself, her relatives, her suitors, her friends, her husband?always charmingly, always quite believing the pose of the moment?and nearly always getting herself and all around her into bushels of trouble. The ingrained human fondness for self-dramatization has seldom been more ingratiatingly described than in this charming and sometimes poignant comedy of the impulses...