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...street in the shadow of Montmartre they fall in love on July 13th. They talk in the street, that night go to the street ball after she has lost her job in a cabaret for slapping an old drunkard (Paul Olivier). That night the taxi-driver's wanton, black-haired ex-mistress (Pola Illery) moves in on him and he moves out. When the blonde finds the brunette's clothes in his room next morning, she breaks off with him. While he is dancing that night with the brunette at the street ball, the blonde's mother...
...Sirs: Who is the Sculptor Edstein, who is mentioned in the limerick which heads the article on Gertrude Stein (Sept. 11, p. 57)? Was TIME, usually so meticulous in the accuracy of its details referring to famed Jacob Epstein? If so, a large demerit for wanton perversion of the facts. ALLEN WELLER Chicago, Chicago, Ill. Sirs...
...ignore it to hurry after her with separate proposals of marriage. Surprisingly, the manager arrives first. Years of novelizing have given Booth Tarkington a glib though obvious technic which he employs with smooth professional skill. Lily Mars repeats his familiar formula of the heroine who is gaily and innocently wanton, and much better at heart than she lets on to be. Not stage people but marionettes are the characters of this book, jiggling from visible wires...
...riches he might have chosen, asked for the Examiner, a pitiable rag taken in for a bad debt. But greater was the Senator's surprise when "Willie," calling about him some of his blithe college friends, proceeded to run up the old rag's circulation-at wanton initial expense- by an amazing application of the Pulitzer method. (He had brought home bound copies of the World.) "The Monarch of the Dailies," he called his sheet, and the spirit of the office was carnival. "There is no substitute for circulation" and "What we want to arouse...
...OBSCURE DESTINIES-Willa Gather- Knopf ($2). THE PAST RECAPTURED-Marcel Proust -Boni ($2.50). PETER ASHLEY-DuBose Heyward- Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). THE SHELTERED LIFE-Ellen Glasgow -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). SONS - Pearl S. Ruck -John Day ($2.50). STATE FAIR - Phil Stong - Century ($2.50). THE STORE-T. S. Stribling-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). WANTON MALLY-Booth Tarkington- Doubleday, Doran ($2). YOUNG WOMAN OF 1914-Arnold Zweig -Viking...