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...Galahad" it might have at least merited such adjectives as original, novel, and daring. Inasmuch as Henry Thomas presents to a satiated public this typically twentieth century literary cocktail in the very center of the storm of applause still acclaiming the Erskine novels, he has committed nothing than une gaucherie. Before the reader has sipped at "Cleopatra's Diary" he has recalled the merits and defects of "Galahad" and adopted a standard of critical comparison which the latest exploit of ancient and medieval virtues and vices cannot begin to approach. For Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, sorceress of the Nile...
Beyond its incongruity and spiciness, however. "Cleopatra's Private Diary" is totally lacking in either originality of sustaining vigor. It is truly une gaucherie...
...Donnez moi une cigraette, Monsieur...
...LOVE GAME?Suzanne Lenglen?Adelphi ($2). Let tongues come out of cheeks and scoffing stifle. As novels go, Suzanne's is no ace, but she has not committed a footfault. No just judge may accuse her of overstepping her knowledge. Her heroine, une jeune fille bien levee, wants to be world tennis champion. Circumstances make it necessary for her to turn professional. She has English suitors. She becomes involved with an Argentine. She gambles at Monte Carlo. Her love affairs are complicated by a code of honor more British than Gallic, and solved by tactics allegedly American?but what shrewd...
...shows a Communist in Paris holding the Communist paper L'Humanite and shouting Le Rif aux Rifains (the Riff for the Riffians). In the other picture is an Englishman in conference with a Riff and the inscription beneath runs: "... et, bien entendu, les mines de Ouergha á une société anglaise!" ( . . . and, of course, the Wergha mines for an English company...