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...Madeleine Smith (which was also the inspiration for Dishonored Lady, played by Katharine Cornell on the Manhattan stage) was the source of Letty Lynton. Whatever evil effect the picture may have on the behavior of its patrons will be increased by the fact that it'is a well-constructed, well-written melodrama which avoids the stencils of its type. Nils Asther is a blonde athlete from Stockholm Yet he wears fuzzy sideburns and speaks in such a way as to be the epitome of Latin menace. There is another immoral character m the story. Letty's mother...
Every two years since 1922 Publisher Harper has held a $10,000 Prize Novel Contest. Last winner was Expatriate Julian Green's The Dark Journey, a well-written bad seller. This time Publisher Harper, twice shy, has given his prize-money for a book that should not make his ledgers see red. Brothers in the West will not appeal to the precious few but should be read, wept over, thoroughly enjoyed by the common-or-garden reader...
Portraits in Miniature is a short book (214 small pages) but contains 18 biographies in parvo. They are like unusually well-written, extremely urbane short stories. Some of their subjects: Elizabethan Sir John Harington, who, "suddenly inspired," invented the water-closet. Jacobean Dr. North, Master of Trinity College (Cambridge), whom illness transmogrified from a scrupulous moralist into a ribald debauchee. The Président de Brosses, the man who got the better of Voltaire over a bill for firewood. Mary Berry, last survivor of the 18th Century, who "could even make Frenchmen hold their tongues; she could even make Englishmen...
...leaders of the Confederacy appear somewhere in its pages, as human beings rather than military automatons. Assuredly rich in anecdote about the South of 1861-65, there is little treatment of Sturat's earlier youth about Richmond and the front-line, the book has many advantages. It is well-written, personal, and never boring...
...Milliken's well-written advertisement quoted correctly, but wisely abstained from drawing certain distinctions. "Harakiri" is only one form of suicide, at which the Japanese are peculiarly adept. Newsman Russell admits the Western screen is encouraging Japs to restrain from their heroic belly-cutting, BUT (here Mr. Milliken forgot to quote) AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHER FORMS OF SUICIDE. "A Japanese authority who has studied suicide in his country." says Mr. Russell . . . "blames the movies for the increase of other forms of self-despatch...