Life — April 24, 1924 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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DON’T know anything about James Hilton—there from aren't. any publicity sheets Littl. Brown & Co. after reading Year,” I am in around at present. I his “The Passionate clined to believe that he is a confirmed widower. After making such a rash confession, it will probably be just my learn that he is a young girl Newnham luck recently graduated from Coll “The Passionate Year,” while it may kindle any ations in either the Thames Hudson, is an absorbingly interesting b It is difficult out just why this is never con- to figure central figure and the back- boy's so, because the is a schoolmaster dis a school Surely duller than that as material for copy And yet Mr, Hilton has worked with it, I nothing sounds sort of magic have heard of ‘went some dividuals who to pieces,” but I with the thoroughness and dispatch of Kenneth Speed. As I along. I felt that if he mistake or I should be never watched one d read made another said an- other wrong. thing able to bear it. But I ate up the story of his misfortunes with the avidity which the hart evidences when he catches up with a cooling stream. Speed's absurd oat seen the OF course marriage was at the r all. Never have I tragedy of mismating so ef fectively presented as in “The Passionate Year.” N living and supp actual unplighting of any troths, but it hing ort of that this novel will cause the may make several people who are 4 to commit matrimony stop and think it all over again HERE i that the arumor that will not down pen is mightier than the sword, but [never feel that way about A good much more to ad one, I The Green Bay it when T want to boost a book bass drum seems then the purpose should certainly RPh R ters (Stokes) an Ameri Bromfield Here is a novel written by an about Ame to or not Tree,” by uy can be there tone ba There is instead an excel ns and—y lheve thing: in it lent story. lovingly and graphically told It reminds me, ina way, tapestry— I am going Democratic that “The but here, here! The jacket says Greer BY JINKS! CALL RADIO FIENDS “1 HUM, 1 SUPPOSE IT'S BECAUSE HAVE ANTENNAE. Is with life in # American steel town great but don’t let that frighten you off. The book has nothing to do with Capital and Labor. It deals with the lives of the family who cling to their park and stately brick sion in the wn in spite man center of the of the encroaching mills which almost rround them. Through moves a wonderful) wom: Wit isn’t n you mect Greek drama Shakespeare and 1 won. derful woman in a book. has a few, and George Meredith have done something for us in this connection. But ordi- T JES’ WONDER WHY THEY THEY ALL narily, writers who tell their editorially how marvelous their he are fall when endowing these 1 ction. Mr make Lily Shane live up to all th down they set lies with speech Bromfield has man: says and thinks of her himself when I And ider how many people there are in this broad, would call Lily a reminded somewhat pe laughed morning “ROLES. by Elizabeth Alex- der (Little, Brown), isa improt free land of s who that before cakfast this silly ble—which is so artistically and yet i much we than “impossit told in such an eng: that straight through and read it It is about an you sit down entertaining young woman who has everything. — includi perfect maid and lingerie Seeurs, and tented _neverthe%ess. to New York, he finds double ina from Boue stage, and that she a perfect young ctress playing a minor part in 4 none-too-successful produc They exch: real life The tion entertaining mg woman has nd and her double h ance, and whole ridiculously and thing comes out satisfactorily and you can't ask much more than that. It isn't often you a book with two heroines her, This is just the thing to take on the tr the next time you to Philadelph ular moral, | It hasn't any par t the raisins are thick, if get what [ mean type is nice and ge. and the HE AMERICAN MIND IN AC TION,” by Harvey O'Higgins and Dr. E,W. Reed (Harper), is a résumé, with kind of think- ng that has gone on in this coun try. Me of such samples, of the drawn diverging Emer- on, Andrew Benjamin (Continued on page 31) ] cross-sections are types as Carnegie, comicbooks.com