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APRIL-Vardis Fisher-Doubleday, Doran ($2). Idyll of a fat, poverty- stricken farm girl with princess yearnings; Idaho's novelist-laureate in a comic Valentine vein...
...local Russian-Jewish newspaper, Novy Mir ("New World"), took on Comrade Trotsky as an assistant editor at $15 per week, and although his spoken English was extremely halting his sharp eye quickly took the measure of Manhattan, his sharper pen promptly produced this editorial in the most brilliant Bronstein vein...
...they rested upon their royal dignity amid general Dutch satisfaction. WThen Petronella & Martinus went to the village Town Hall for their First-Class wedding the whole countryside had turned out to cheer them but the Vice-Burgomaster, who performed the ceremony, lectured them in the same Dutch-uncle vein as the Burgomaster of The Hague used in lecturing Their Royal Highnesses. After completing the marriage with a stroke of his gavel, the Vice-Burgomaster concluded, "You two young people must not get the idea that you are of any importance just because all these people have come here while...
...very much lighter vein-and this cousin Newbold reserved for the fourth daily installment of his account, tucking it away unobtrusively-King Edward later evinced what seemed to be the part-owner of the Star a sense of humor "American" rather than "English." His Majesty was graciously pleased to utter to Mrs. Simpson's second cousin by marriage these words, related by Cousin Newbold as a merry royal jest...
...this play that the invading army must not charge his gate, for it is only made of cloth. If one is appreciative of the super-subtlety of this sort of thing, he will probably enjoy the acting of Clarence Derwent and Constance Carpenter, which is in the same vein...