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BRAZILIAN ADVENTURE-Peter Fleming Scribner ($2.75). The tales of returned explorers range in tone all the way from the symphonies of Charles Montagu Doughty to the popular ditties of Richard Halliburton, but invariably they harmonize on taking their travels seriously. Against this impressive but monotonous harmony Explorer-Author Fleming raises...
Deere Wiman, producer). If Johann Strauss was looking down last week from his waltz-heaven he was probably scandalized at the way little Helen Ford (Dearest Enemy) laced herself into a high old-fashioned corset, powdered herself suggestively and came forth to pipe his pet coloratura aria with comically fluttering...
Dorothy Brown Locke took up fencing five years ago when she was 16 because her father, a Manhattan mathematics teacher, disapproved of her posture. Joseph Vince, to whose Salle d'Armes Mr. Locke sent her, saw very little promise in Dorothy; her knees wobbled, she had poor coordination. She...
Before Sinclair ("Red") Lewis made a name for himself as a satirist of U. S. civilization he was a romancer and writer of romantic verse of the also-ran variety. The unromantic world, which dampens many high enthusiasms, turned his to hate. Because he was a good hater and because...
RECAPTURED -Colette- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Though civilization has pretty well rubbed the romantic bloom off what the Bible and lawyers still call adultery, the theme was for a time almost a monopoly of the essentially unromantic French, still appeals strongly to their rationalizing writers. "Colette." whose books continue to be...