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FULL FLAVOUR ? Doris Leslie ? Macmillan ($2.50). Well-written and distinctive novel covering four generations in the history of an English family...
...handsome, well-written but misguided expedition into a realm which properly belongs to Shakespeare, Shaw and history, Cleopatra is important for two reasons. One of the most expensive pictures of the year, it will probably clear all expenses. It is the 60th work of the only director in Hollywood who managed to walk the tight rope from silent to sound films without losing his megaphone or his mannerisms...
...make a picture unless I have a feeling about it." His slowness in communicating his feelings during story conferences irritates writers and producers. He cannot write dialog or construct a story himself but has a talent for squeezing the last drop of emotion out of any well-written scene. He came to Hollywood with his wife Florence 18 years ago in a rattletrap Ford, stealing gas and tires on the way, bringing with him a camera record of the trip. Since then he has made such silent pictures as The Big Parade (1925), The Crowd (1927), talkies like Cynara...
...desire or expect to be faced with this type of morbid literature. Coming upon it unexpectedly, he is left in a rather peculiar state of mind, a state of mind that can be achieved by reading any number of cheaper publications. At least, he should be able to expect well-written informative material, and he should be able to feel satisfied that he is better off for having read...
...DREAMER-Julian Green-Harper ($2.50). Another depressing, well-written psychological novel by a morbid author of the introspective school. FIVE SILVER DAUGHTERS-Louis Golding-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). What the profit and loss of war and marriage did to five sisters; a post-War novel on a big scale. SUPERSTITION CORNER-Sheila Kaye-Smith-Harper ($2.50). Adventures of a Roman Catholic heroine under Protestant Queen Bess; by the author of Joanna Godden. MARIA PALUNA-Blair Niles-Longmans, Green ($2.50). Latin-American historical romance (Guatemala) treated in the grand manner. JONAH'S GOURD VINE-Zora Neale Hurston-Lippincott ($2). Negro novel...