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...impersonating their grandchildren, for it begins in 1881, ends in 1933. Everett Marshall, having assisted Evelyn Herbert to cuckold her high-born husband on her wedding night, departs with French troops to Africa and is killed off early in Act I. But Producer White has another expensive baritone, Walter Woolf. ready to step into the breach and lush, blonde Miss Herbert is happily reincarnated, thus holding the stage to the end. If you are patient and like Romberg music, you should enjoy yourself at Melody...
...potentates. Born in Teheran, Persia and brought up in whatever foreign posts his family happened to be, he served his country in France, Spain, Turkey, Geneva. Persia, Germany. In 1929, unable to contain himself any longer, he resigned, joined forces with the "Bloomsbury Group" (John Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf, the late Lytton Strachey), took to ink. His first books were biographies of Tennyson, Byron, Swinburne, Verlaine. No mere filial pietist, he wrote a biography of his father that might stand as a monument to the "old" diplomacy...
...Begins, (&-" - (,93-75;-1909-1914 - Mark Sullivan - Scribner (3.75) RETLTRN TO YESTERDAY-Ford Madox Ford-Liveright ($4). THE REVOLT OF THE MASSES-Jose Ortega y Gasset-Norton ($2.75). THE SAVAGE PILGRIMAGE : A NARRATIVE OF D. H. LAWRENCE-Catherine Carswell -Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). THE SECOND COMMON READER-Virginia Woolf-Harcourt, Brace ($3). WINGS OVER POLAND-Kenneth Malcolm Murray-Appleton...
Like Thornton Niven Wilder but more so, Virginia Woolf is a widely-read if not popular writer whose public is largely made up of people who have not the vaguest idea what she is driving at. Though many a Junior Leaguer felt called upon to rave over Orlando, though some who bought or borrowed it managed to wade through The Waves, few in any league would have chosen to make their enthusiasm coherent. Virginia Woolf is certainly no labyrinthine monster, monstrous clever though she be, but her readers, like a lot of Little Red Riding Hoods, are apt to mistake...
...Second Common Reader, a sequel to her first collection of critical essays, will appeal more to library-haunters than to débutantes, though anybody who likes good writing might enjoy them. In 26 brief, graceful, revealing essays Authoress Woolf conducts you on a tour of the minor masterpieces of English literature and their makers-from the great late Elizabethans to the late great Thomas Hardy. In her concluding paper ("How Should One Read a Book?") she drops a cogent hint to readers of whatever kind: "Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction...