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RUSTLERS' VALLEY?Clarence E. Mulford?Doubleday ($2.00). Clarence Mulford is worth 20 Zane Greys, if only because he holds no brief for his great open spaces. He does not let his watering eye wander for chapters over the mesas, nor does he shake his horny finger reproachfully at the jazzing East. He hasn't time. His heroes are always too much on the move?solving mysteries, pulling guns, cracking jokes, riding pintos, drinking redeye, winning heroines, proving that the accusations against them are (in large part) false? anyway exaggerated. This book follows the accepted pattern. He gives you what...
Heritage of the Desert. In the telling of Western stories Zane Gray and the cinema are, in their respective mediums, difficult to defeat. Therefore when they get together the resulting entertainment must be big medicine. Ably assisted by Ernest Torrence, Bebe Daniels, Noah Beery, the cinema chemists have herein compounded an exceptionally vigorous specific...
...Home" campaign is directed, we read the National Real Estate Journal with thoughtful care. It seems that the ultimate word in salesmanship, according to the current issue of the Journal, is to "reduce sales-resistance by analyzing your buyer's library." If he reads Harold Bell Wright and Zane Grey, solid comfort and respectability are his first requirements, but if his library contains Conrad, Henry James. Balzac, and De Morgan, the salesman must use the utmost discrimination, as his desire for a distinctive home with beautiful and harmonious surroundings will be limited only by his income. We wonder...
...genius in recent fiction-all these jostle each other with all the inconsecutiveness of life itself in the pages of The Grand Tour. Beluga caviar for the appreciative, a discriminating and active talent experimenting successfully in an unusual medium, not to be recommended to those whose trust is in Zane Grey...
...Dorothy Parker, Marc Connolly, and Ring Lardner from a sound critical lashing. Heywood Broun's novel The Boy Grew Older was enthusiastically welcomed by the older and more conventional reviewers, but Broun's friends ridiculed and disparaged it as viciously as if it had been written by Zane Grey...