Life — July 28, 1927 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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Life Among the New Books “THE WOMAN ON THE BAI wretched creature paid and paid and and his editress, and th CONY,” by Rose Caylor (Boni paid, and it is her lavish expendi Vrader Horn” (Simon & Schu & Liveright), was a disappointment — ture in this respect which convinces — is no fake. Alfred Aloysius He in a way, because instead of the old me that she was not quite right in the old visiter, Ethel murdered in his library which the head. The Woman on the Bal- his impresario, and « or whom—I expected to find in cony” will be meat for females with delightful in the opening chapter, there was a — persecution complexes, and will make 1 in this reminiscent throwback to the ado- clearer what Meredith meant when Mrs. Lewis w leseent days of the heroine which he said that Diana Wa kowas) in Johar turned out to have less than the flow considered a woman of t much — peddling chenware ers that bloom in the spring to do humor to be capable of a grande — path and proffered ly with what followed. However, Lam passion took her polite refi bound to set down that if anybody such phi r woking for a tense presentation of Wit N Barrie wrote the fore- detained him, — be the eternal triangle, one in which the word for “The Young Visit- which she didn't victims writhe and swoon and have ers.” he could not swear to the that he had a st hysterics before the reader's very authenticity of the material, but in fascination that s eyes, his quest should be ended here doing the same thing for the life f with, The story is that of Lewis and works of a certain “old visiter chapters of his ret Klasgen and his wife and his mis- John Galsworthy testifies that he than fifty: years tress. ‘The man’s conduct and reac has met and conversed, as far away o He took to the w tions are exactly what would be ex is Johannesburg, with the writer . ack to (Pease turn pected in the circumstances, and Miss Caylor is to be congrat ro alpet yf aos SU fy wulh yma Qa, spat ast. Rows fernal masculine. But it is a little difficult to credit the twie To Leadon ou {dente / —— * nitwits which constitute the feminine part of the sketch. 4 Ow y ee The wife calls her husbanc ’ ake ree tieeaphoat i siate dvidy \ £ vndy ' "WE We Wore show, whether she is vouch safing the information that she Wh hint a Wendy has bought a dog or reproach- 1S ri ‘ ing him for his infidelity. AGEN wh (Sy He Gord: the Ger! Once in a while she varies it with “hone Her campaign for ki him technically tied to her is a study in te nacity for which the author should also be congratulated. As for poor Lise Brandt, who gets the extremely short end of things, three-fourths of her con-, versation is choked with ind on page 168 her capacity for romantic torture is’ indi cated thus: “Oh, haw well she knew it—that love, that young love, when she used to lie in the dark, with her head propped up, her heart feverish, her eyes staring, all her senses fixed on a single idea—that she loved, that she was in love: Of course the old ladies on the veranda are going to think Lis¢ got no worse than she deserved, walking into a respectable household like the Alasgens’ ind grabbing off the husband, but they cannot deny that the PAGE PROM A SONG-WRITER'S NOTEBOOK APTER THE TRANSOCEANIC PLIGHTS. comicbooks.com