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THREE GUINEAS-Virginia Woolf-Harcourt, Brace...
...declare in unison singing together that anyone who uses that word in future is a ring-the-bell-and-run-away man, a mischief maker, a groper among old bones, the proof of whose defilement is written in a smudge of dirty water upon his face." The word Virginia Woolf thus exorcises is "feminist." Last week, out of deference to her rhetoric, critics refrained from using it to describe her social essay, Three Guineas...
Thus, the story of Henry Cope. 1803 hero of The Moon Is Feminine, a rich, dilettante bachelor with "quick" green eyes, narrow forehead, "Wertherish smile," is too brightly in the manner of Virginia Woolf to be missed by the dimmest-sighted reader. But Clemence Dane has her own transformer for cutting down Virginia Woolf's voltage to serve more popular tastes: the mood of her legend comes nearer to those melancholy romances which flourished in the 90s-dark young women floating beautifully dead in lily ponds...
...loudly ballyhooed meeting of War Admiral and Seabiscuit, two of the seven entries in the $50,000 added Massachusetts Handicap. Three thousand miles away, in brand-new Hollywood Park at Inglewood, 50,000 Californians gathered to watch a highly touted race, for a $50,000 purse, between Herbert M. Woolf's Lawrin (Kentucky Derby winner) and William du Font's Dauber (Preakness winner) to settle the "American three-year-old championship...
...latest book, Three Guineas, tall, droopy-eyed Virginia Woolf, longtime queen of London's literary Bloomsbury, ridiculed men's (meaning, of course, Englishmen's) clothes. Dress, said she, is worn by women: 1) to cover the body, 2) for beauty's sake, 3) for men's sake; by men: to advertise rank and position. Woolf on Englishmen's full dress clothes: "How many, how splendid, how extremely ornate...