Word: versions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THIS ECSTASY-Elizabeth Stern- J. H. Sears ($2.50). The title of this tale, the purple cover which surrounds its 384 pages, are good hints. In a style which appears to be the offspring of a union between A. S. M. Hutchinson and the King James Version of the Bible, Author Stern, in the first person, unfolds the humdrum history of a young writer, later turned advertising man, later turned merchant. His unimportant love affairs, his inconsequential pokings at life with a stick, fail to acquire emotional value or intensity by virtue of the magenta draperies which muffle the recital...
...London, the Opposition kept Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain continually on the grill, answering questions which disputed the veracity of the official British- version of events at Nanking (TIME, April 4) when Chinese rioted and U. S. and British gunboats shelled the city. Finally, in the House of Commons, Captain Duff-Cooper (Conservative) asked Sir Austen whether he knew that the Labor weekly, published by George Lansbury, M. P. (Opposition) had actually declared that the members of the Baldwin Cabinet are collectively responsible for the loss of life at Nanking. "So they are!" shouted Mr. Lansbury. "What I said...
...skit entitled "Bernarr Hires a Stenographer." Therein it was demonstrated how a youthful office attendant, apparently of the male sex, flits about in a bathing suit, making ready the desk of his potent employer who is to arrive presently for the purpose of hiring a stenographer. Enter a stage version of Bernarr, also in a one-piece bathing suit, with pronounced features. After setting-up exercises, he calls for the applicants to enter. As they file in, in scanty costume, each is measured by the bird-like youth for hip, breast, ankle, calf dimensions. The evidence having been accumulated...
...altered the story to do so. For example, the love drink is not one mentioned; Tristram and Isolt are consumed by a passion which it needs no magical agency to explain. And in other matters Mr. Robinson has altered his material for his own purposes. In the twelfth century version Isolt was "Isolt la Blonde"; in Malory, she was "La Belle Isond"; Mr. Robinson's Isolt has "night black hair" and "dark splendor" in her eyes. She is thus described, one imagines, to distinguish her from that other Isolt, Isolt of the white hands, for whom Tristram...
...this blind passion is itself one of the reasons why the original version is so moving. Does Mr. Robinson, apparently discarding it, and retelling the story in the terms of modern sensitivity succeed in making his account equally moving and convincing? This is the important question the reviewer must...